Extendable And Articulated Floor Lamp, By Maison Stablet, Paris, France, Circa 1940 / 1950

Modernist floor lamp/ reading lamp, tubular metal structure forming, in a single movement, a circle with a red lacquered base, from which rises the polished brass shaft topped by a ball-and-socket joint supporting a tubular arm also in brass, movable, finished by an annular ring housing the diabolo shade, on ball-and-socket joint. Recent cotton lampshade, redone to match the original. Signed Stablet under the base.

Maison Stablet was active between 1925 and 1960.

Maximum height: 225 cm (88.6 inches)
Minimum height: 153 cm (60.2 inches)
Depth: 70 cm (27.5 inches)
Base diameter: 35 cm (13.8 inches)