Edouard-Wilfred Buquet

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Édouard-Wilfred Buquet (* 1866 ) was a French lamp designer . His best-known object is a desk lamp called EB 27 , which is made up of his initials and the year the patent was granted, 1927.

life and work

Little is known about the life of Édouard-Wilfred Buquet. Research from the 1970s revealed that in 1925 he designed the two-armed desk lamp "EB 27" (91.5 cm maximum height with a base of 15 cm diameter) and made it by hand from nickel-plated brass, aluminum and lacquered wood. On February 9, 1927, he received the patent for his lamp, in particular for the flexible parts, from the Ministère du Commerce et l'Industrie in Paris. The base of the streamlined lamp can also be mounted on a wall or an angled surface. The articulated, counterweighted arms can be adjusted and rotated at any angle to emit light in a large radius. According to the patent, the lamp can be "moved with the slightest touch".

The object was made popular by Lucien Rollins Desk of a Technician made of oak and Swedish birch, which he exhibited with the lamp at the Salon of the Société des artistes décorateurs in 1929. Buquet's design found further dissemination through publications in French magazines in the late 1930s. The “Buquet table lamp” was one of the most popular lamp designs of the Arts Déco and of the twenties and was often incorporated into the interior design of architects such as Le Corbusier , Marcel Breuer , Joubert and Petit, Maurice Barret, Louis Sognot or Marcel Coard.

Buquet designed and produced several variations of the lamp until 1940, whereby the two-armed version turned out to be the most popular due to its functionality. Some designs were also silver-plated. One example of the "EB 27" lamp is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City . The price for an original lamp was quoted at US $ 10,000 in 1997.

literature

  • Mel Byars, Arlette Barré-Despond: 100 Designs, 100 Years: Innovative Designs of the 20th Century. RotoVision, 1999, ISBN 2-88046-442-0 , p. 1927.
  • Kate McIntyre: The Desk Lamp. An appreciation. Design icons. Aurum Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85410-596-5 , p. 11.
  • Kathryn B. Hiesinger, George Marcus: Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design. An Illustrated Handbook. Abbeville Press, 1995, p. 102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mel Byars, Arlette Barré-Despond: 100 Designs, 100 Years: Innovative Designs of the 20th Century. RotoVision, 1999, ISBN 2-88046-442-0 , p. 1927.
  2. ^ Kathryn B. Hiesinger, George Marcus: Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design. An Illustrated Handbook. Abbeville Press, 1995, p. 102.
  3. ^ Édouard-Wilfrid Buquet - table lamp, France 1925 In: Bauhaus-Designers
  4. ↑ Buquet lamp. In: Bares für Rares , objects from October 16, 2017
  5. ^ Édouard-Wilfred Buquet, Desk Lamp, 1927. In: Museum of Modern Art
  6. ^ Repro lighting. In: New York Magazine, April 14, 1997, Vol. 30, No. 14, ISSN 0028-7369, p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Buquet, Edouard-Wilfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buquet, Édouard-Wilfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lamp designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
DATE OF DEATH 20th century