"Pair Of Jean Perzel Ceiling Lights Model 2058 A - Art Deco"
Pair of Perzel three-light ceiling lights, model 2058 A, nicknamed "The Queen's Necklace", composed of slabs of raw cast glass set between two bronze crowns. Circa 1970. Signed inside.
Diameter 35 cm, height 13.5 cm.
These ceiling lights are in very good used condition and the electrification is in perfect working order. Only the round frosted glass plates have been replaced because one of the original ones was broken. The new ones, made of very good quality glass, are more opaque than the originals. See the photo of a lit wall light to see the result.
Jean Perzel was a French glassmaker, goldsmith, and designer of German descent, a pioneer in lighting and lighting design in France since the 1920s. Born on May 2, 1892, in Bavaria, Germany, Perzel lived and worked in Paris as a glassmaker and became a naturalized French citizen after serving in the Foreign Legion during the First World War. In 1923, he founded his own company specializing in modern lighting. Perzel created original works for the King of Belgium, French Presidents Georges Pompidou and Charles de Gaulle, and other dignitaries. He worked with Art Deco and Modernist architects and decorators on monuments such as the Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg, and the ocean liner Normandie. He died in 1986 in Paris.
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