Lot 477
RICHARD STEVENS AND PETER RODD FOR ATLAS LIGHTING LTD.
'CHELSEA' RANGE PENDANT LIGHT, CIRCA 1960
Auction: Day Two | Lots 304 to 482 | Thurs 16th April 2026 from 11am
Description
patinated metal with hand-blown glass shades by James Powell & Sons
Dimensions
90cm high, 25cm diameter
Footnote
Literature: Fine Art Society Austerity to Affluence: British Art and Design 1945-1962, Merrell Holberton 1997, p. 2, frontispiece image where a similar example illustrated.
V&A accession no. CIRC.382 to F-1963
Winning the Design Centre Award in 1960, the Chelsea lighting fitting was seen as a new kind of decorative light due to the stark relationship between the sharp black metal and the thick coloured glass made by James Powell & Sons. The Design Journal described the light as “attractive whether the lamps are alight or not, and the effect is rich when the specially designed bulb throws light downwards into the hand-blown crystal glass, which can be clear, amber, pale rose or pale blue”.