Serge Mouille original lamps 🇫🇷 Made in France
Éditions Serge Mouille (ESM) was born from the meeting of his widow, Gin Mouille, and Claude Delpiroux, in 1999. Located very close to the village of Monthiers, in the south of Aisne, where Serge Mouille had his workshop, Editions Serge Mouille has resumed the manufacturing of its lighting fixtures while respecting their shapes, colors and dimensions as much as their artisanal manufacturing process, Serge Mouille having always refused to opt for industrial production in order to preserve the particular appearance of the lamps. hand hammering, which he had learned at the dawn of his adolescence in the company of Gabriel Lacroix.
The ESM collection now includes 35 models, divided into floor lamps, wall lights, ceiling lights and desk lamps, available in black and white. Each model is handmade, numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. If in doubt about the authenticity of a piece, do not hesitate to consult ESM to authenticate it.
After the creation of his arm sconces, eager to exploit the new formal possibilities offered by neon which had just appeared, Serge Mouille created the Luminous Columns series in 1962, which provoked incomprehension and sold poorly.
Disappointed, he stopped producing lighting fixtures in 1963 and devoted himself entirely to teaching!
Before creating his famous lighting fixtures, Serge Mouille (1922-1988) was a precocious and gifted child who entered the School of Applied Arts in Paris at just 13 years old. There he learned to work metal with a hammer under the guidance of his master Gabriel Lacroix and immediately began a career as a goldsmith with Hénin et Cie. After the war, he combined the professions of teacher of Applied Arts and independent craftsman for various Parisian goldsmith houses.
Serge Mouille's career as a designer was born in 1951 from his meeting with Jacques Adnet (whose Danish manufacturer Gubi now reissues several works), then director of the Compagnie des Arts Français, who asked him to create a "large lighting fixture" for its customers in South America. Serge Mouille then imagined the now famous three-armed floor lamp and straight floor lamp, which inaugurated the Formes Noires series to which he owes his worldwide reputation today.
Critical recognition and commercial success came in 1956, thanks to Steph Simon's gallery, boulevard Saint Germain, which exhibited Serge Mouille's lighting alongside works by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi and a few other key figures of the movement. functional integration for interior design.
Eager to exploit the new formal possibilities offered by neon, which had just appeared, Serge Mouille created the series of Luminous Columns in 1962, which provoked incomprehension and sold poorly. Disappointed, he stopped his lighting production in 1963 and devoted himself entirely to teaching.