Table lamp by Édouard-Wilfred Buquet

Édouard-Wilfred Buquet table lamp, France circa 1920s⁠

⁠very little is known about this Modernist designer yet he is one of the most sought-after French Modernist lamp makers of the Art Deco period. He designed his lighting from the 1920s, examples of Buquet’s lamps were displayed in the 1929 Salon d’Automne. ⁠

Buquet designed the “EB 27” double-arm desk lamp in 1925, handmade from nickel-plated brass, aluminium and varnished wood. He was granted a patent for this lamp by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Paris on 9 February 1927, Buquet designed and produced different variations of these lamps until the 1940s