India Mahdavi 'fantomas' Pair Of Lamps / Floor Lamps, Eye-ball Design, Black Lacquered Steel

Pair of floor lamps (H: 140cm) created by the French decorator INDIA MAHDAVI in the 1990s. "Fantomas" model, Eyeball type, black lacquered steel structures and white reflectors receiving screw-in sockets for E27 bulbs, preferably half-chrome (as in the images, easily found in LED), floor switches. Good condition, some signs of wear to note, electricity ok. Biography: Architect, designer, decorator, Mahdavi's style is cosmopolitan, influenced by cinema as much as by design and art. She designs interior architecture as a true decorative recreation, a three-dimensional tale, mixing eras and styles, bringing humor and fantasy. India Mahdavi was born on April 4, 1962 in Tehran, Iran. French of Iranian-Egyptian origin, she was born to an Egyptian mother and an Iranian father and spent her childhood between Cambridge (Massachusetts), Heidelberg (Germany), Vence and Paris. With degrees in architecture (DPLG), industrial design (Cooper Union, New York), graphic design (School of Visual Arts, New York) and furniture (Parsons The New School for Design, New York), she began her professional career with the decorator Christian Liaigre, of whom she became the artistic director from 1990 to 1997. Since the beginning of her career in the 1990s, she has developed through her interior design projects a style associated with a certain vision of happiness and color, which she has largely contributed to re-staging. She has worked with Maja Hoffmann, the Beaumarly group, Valentino, Ladurée, the Société des Bains de Mer de Monaco, Petite Friture, but also Alber Elbaz and Adel Abdessemed. She has designed and drawn private residences all over the world (Paris, London, New York, Siwa [Egypt], Sydney), but also hotels, restaurants and boutiques. Her objects, starting with the Bishop, are among the icons of contemporary decorative art. In 1999, she opened her own design studio, rue Las-Cases, in Paris. In 2003, she launched her first furniture collection (chairs, coffee tables, armchairs, etc.) and inaugurated her showroom, 3 rue Las-Cases. In 2012, she opened her boutique at 19, rue Las-Cases, a place intended to promote a range of artisanal know-how and ancestral techniques as well as a signature color chart. Numerous prizes and awards, see attached images...