Canada, 1970s
H 104 x D 43 cm
Pearlescent methacrylate and brass
Very good condition
€4,100
Two shells of pearlescent methacrylate curl into each other around a brass stem, leaving between them the slit through which the light escapes. The material is neither opaque nor transparent: it holds the light and gives it back through its thickness, which gives the lamp almost the same presence unlit as lit.
Roger Rougier, based in Montreal, founded in the 1970s one of the few workshops to treat acrylic as a sculptural material rather than as a cheap substitute for glass. His lights bear the name of what they evoke — the shell, the tulip: they look for a form before they look for a lighting effect.
Its 104 cm place it at the limit of a floor lamp: it stands on the floor as well as on a console. Original brass base.
