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This large ceramic table lamp, designed by George Pelletier, features a white glazed upper half and a matte brown-beige glazed lower half, adorned with openwork decorations that allow the interior light to shine through.
Dimensions with shade: ø37 H97cm
Georges Pelletier (1938-2024)
Born in 1938 in Brussels, Belgium, Georges Pelletier was a ceramicist who lived and worked in Cannes, France. His ceramics are highly sought after by art collectors, and each piece is unique. It was at the Pioulier school in Vence, in the south of France, where he was a student in 1953, that Georges Pelletier first encountered the art of ceramics. The following year, he moved to Paris where he attended the Académie Charpentier, and then in 1955, he enrolled at the École des Arts et Métiers, also practicing and refining his ceramic techniques at the Poteries d'Accolay. Paris offered him a rich cultural environment, where he frequently visited the studios of Fernand Léger and other artists. In the early 1960s, he opened his first ceramics studio in Paris, where he began creating unique pieces that attracted the attention of Maison Bobois, which sold his creative lamps and sculptures with lampshades made by Pierre Ménard from Roche Bobois fabrics from 1961 to 1973. In 1973, he moved to Cannes, where he set up a new studio in which he still works today alongside his son. His style is recognizable by the solar motifs he incorporates into his ceramics, and by the use of small golden beads suspended from chrome-plated nickel stems.
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