Pair Of Perzel Sconces Model 542 Bis In Gilded Bronze

The 542 bis model created in the 1930s by Jean Perzel, and still produced today, is one of the finest creations of the Art Deco period. Five stepped hand-cut diamond glass blades reflecting beautiful shimmering light, highlighted by a bronze mount, support a gilt bronze and sandblasted glass cup. The sandblasted glass part of the cup is removable as shown in the photos. Each of the wall lights is signed Perzel. This present pair of wall lamps dating from the 1980s is ready to be installed, two-light electrification in good working order. Width 44 cm, depth 27 cm, height 21 cm. Jean Perzel was born in Bruck, in Bavaria, on May 2, 1892. He learned the profession of glass painter at a very young age in Munich and at sixteen, the first to leave school, he undertook his tour of Europe on foot: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Upper Italy, then France. Along the way he gets hired in workshops to earn a living and learn the different techniques. He arrived in Paris in 1910 at the home of a master glassmaker who sent him after a year to carry out important work in Algiers. He returned to Paris in 1914. He joined the Foreign Legion, was demobilized in 1919 and naturalized French. He still works as a glass painter, mainly at Gruber. From 1923 he specialized in the study of modern interior lighting. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne since 1924, at the Salon des Artistes décorateurs since 1925, at the National Society of Fine Arts from 1932 to 1936, and abroad: Barcelona, Bari, Brussels and New York. He is part of many juries during his exhibitions. He won first prize in the Lighting Competition organized at the Salon des Décorateurs in 1928 and four first prizes in the Luminaire Competition in 1936. He was responsible for organizing the lighting of the Palais de la SDN in Geneva, the cathedral of Luxembourg, from Mulhouse station, from the French Institute in London, executed works for the Maharaja of Indore, for the Court of Belgium, Henry Ford in Detroit, the buildings of the European Coal Community and the steel, the Canadian Embassy in The Hague, the residence of the Emperor of Annam in Dalat, the residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, etc. Jean Perzel has been a Knight of the Legion of Honor since 1937.