MICHEL BUFFET (1931-2024) & ROBERT MATHIEU PUBLISHER

B211 Floor Lamp, black/white variant, the model originally designed in white around 1953.

Double-lighting floor lamp. The V-shaped shaft and the feet, each ending in a circular pad, are made of black lacquered tubular metal. The truncated and perforated cone reflector is made of black lacquered metal. The circular cup is made of white lacquered metal. 1950s.
Height: 175 cm

Provenance: Private collection, Paris.

Exhibition: – 37th Salon des Artistes Décorateurs – Grand Palais, Paris, April 28 to June 7, 1953.
First presentation of the B211 model, entirely white, produced by Robert Mathieu, at this event.
– Lumières, je pense à vous – Galerie du CCI du Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 3 to August 5, 1985. An identical model presented under catalog no. 101.

Bibliography:
– Mobilier et Décoration – No. 3, 1954. An identical, entirely white model featured in an advertisement by publisher Mathieu in the introductory sections.
– Collectif – Lumières, je pense à vous – Exhibition catalog, Galerie du CCI du Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 3 to August 5, 1985. An identical model referenced under no. 101 and reproduced on page 136.
– Charlotte and Peter Fiell – 1000 Lights 1879 to 1959 – Taschen Editions, Cologne, 2005. An identical model reproduced on page 474.
– Clémence and Didier Krzentowski – The Complete Designer’s Lights II – JRP Ringier Editions, Zurich, 2014. An identical model reproduced on page 44 and described on page 43.
– Guillemette Delaporte – Michel Buffet, un esthète dans le monde industriel – Norma Editions, Paris, 2018. The prototype of the model, entirely white, reproduced on pages 4 and 8; the drawing of the model appearing on Michel Buffet’s deposit with the Syndicat de la propriété artistique dated January 9, 1953, reproduced on page 18; identical models, entirely white, reproduced on pages 25 and 177.