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Object Name2-part Wall Sconce

Maker Philippe Starck (French, b. 1949)

Maker Flos Incorporated

Made FromGlass, electrical fixture

Date1989

Techniquemold-blown, acid-etched, fabricated

SizeH: 24 cm, L: 28.6 cm, D: 14 cm

Accession Number91.3.58

Credit LineGift of Flos Incorporated

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

Italy

Physical DescriptionTranslucent white or opal encased in colorless non-lead glass; electrical fixture, ceramic socket; mold-blown, acid-etched, fabricated. Wall-mounted lighting fixture, rounded conical glass shape with overall matte surface and wide base sliced at an angle so mounted cone points away from wall, base cut (ground and polished flat) extends up back side leaving long narrow opening bridged by metallic plate held in place by two bolts through two holes drilled in the glass; (a) electrical fixture on ovoid metal plate with angled hinge bolts to plate already attached to glass, metal oval "floats" within open base of glass; unsigned.
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