1950s Spanish Gilt Wrought-Iron Floor Lamp Greece 1917–2003)

1917–2003)

Height: 98

raised on spiral-twist tapering legs headed by foliate collars and terminating in turned feet

The Directoire style was essentially born of the architects and designers Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pier François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853)

Midcentury Rattan and Bamboo Floor Lamp in the style of Franco Albini

1950s Spanish Gilt Wrought-Iron Floor Lamp Greece 1917–2003)1950s Spanish Gilt Wrought Iron Floor Lamp The plain conical ivory linen shade above a small circular drip pan or bobeche of flattened form a deliberate allusion to the ecclesiastical candlestick tradition from which this form directly descends above a slender plain round section standard of hand forged iron, punctuated at the median by a small compressed knop, the whole raised on a tripod base of three arched legs of elegant, attenuated form issuing