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Gras Ravel

Oct 06 2020

Gras Ravel 207 model adjustable table lamp

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Original lamp Gras 207 model, made in France circa 1930
The Gras lamp became popular when Le Corbusier started to use them first in his offices and then for his customer projects.
Bibliography : Didier Tessonnière, La lampe Gras, Norma, 2008

Written by admin · Categorized: 20th Century, 20thC lighting, CV5 left, featured · Tagged: Art Deco, Bernard-Albin Gras, Gras Ravel, le corbusier, Table lamps

Feb 19 2020

LAMPE GRAS MODEL 201 by BERNARD ALBIN GRAS

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Gras industrial table lamp model 201 by Bernard Albin
Gras, edited by Ravel. Finished in nickel with original aluminium shade
Clamart, France circa 1940

Written by Zara Rowe · Categorized: 20th Century, 20thC lighting · Tagged: Art Deco, Bernard-Albin Gras, Clamart, desk lamps, Gras Ravel, industrial lighting, le corbusier

May 02 2019

model 215 mobile Gras Ravel floor lamp

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Rare nickel plated and aluminium Gras model 215 mobile floor lamp with aluminium “Normal” lampshade produced in 1930. 

The Gras lamp became popular when Le Corbusier started to use them first in his offices and then for his customer projects.  Other notable Gras lamp clients included Ruhlmann, Brassaï and Georges Braque.

Bibliography : Didier Tessonnière, La lampe Gras, Norma, 2008, p. 128 et p. 131.

(wiring replaced)

Written by admin · Categorized: 20th Century, 20thC lighting, featured · Tagged: Art Deco, Bernard-Albin Gras, floor lamp, Gras Ravel, le corbusier

Feb 13 2017

Gras Ravel 403 model adjustable table lamp

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Rare Gras Ravel  403 model adjustable table lamp in original condition with oculist shade. France circa 1930

Bernard-Albin Gras came fromin the small town of Saint-Raphaël, France. By the 1920s, he had become a tireless engineer and inventor with a passion for improving working conditions for ordinary laborers.

Prolific in his work, Gras registered dozens of patents, including one for Lampe Gras in 1921. Few mobile lighting solutions existed then, and those that did were likely to shock anyone who attempted to move them. Gras sought a lamp that would shed light precisely where needed, with reflectors and supports for each task.

Desiring one solution, he ended up developing three: a clamp lamp that could be moved from workbench to machine, a sliding lamp that could follow the user and a pivoting lamp that could be precisely positioned over a table. All are marked by his innovative Bakelite ball system and spring-balanced arm construction for flexible positioning – both well ahead of their time.

His lamps soon found their way into machine shops, research laboratories, design studios and operating rooms. Architect Le Corbusier even seized upon the design for his own projects because it met his idea of the perfect object/tool: a form reduced to its pure function, free of superfluous ornament. Gras would lead a wave of other early adopters that included Eileen Gray, Robert Mallet-Stevens and Man Ray, among others.

Lampe Gras stands as its maker’s defining work, with a screw- and weld-free articulated design that is just as functional and appealing today as it was in its early years.

source: design within reach

The last photo shows this model in the original “Catalogue B – La Lampe Adjustable D.G.R.”

Written by admin · Categorized: 20th Century, 20thC lighting, featured · Tagged: Bernard-Albin Gras, Gras Ravel

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