Serge Mouille - Design Masters New York Wednesday, December 15, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Magasins Pilotes, Paris

  • Literature

    Pierre Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille: a French Classic, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, p. 81

  • Catalogue Essay

    "Marcel-Henri Vassal and his son, the decorator Claude Vassal, opened their first Magasin Pilote (Pilot Store) in February 1955 in Paris, near the Porte d’Orléans. They got Serge Mouille to do the lighting, and he installed a system of U-shaped tracks, fixed to the ceiling, running all round the exhibition rooms. Grosse Moule reflectors were suspended on the track by a bracket which could slide as required, and the wiring was invisible, hidden in the track itself – and this track was the ancestor of our present-day track lighting."
    Pierre-Émile Pralus, Serge Mouille: a French Classic, Saint Cyr au Mont d’Or, 2006, p. 80

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Rare "Grosse Moule" suspension ceiling light

1955
Painted aluminum, painted tubular metal, brass.
19 1/4 x 19 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (49 x 50 x 24 cm.)

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Design Masters

15 December 2010
New York