Lot 192
ATTRIBUTED TO BEVERLEY PICK (BRITISH 1916-1995) FOR G.E.C., LONDON
FLOOR LAMP, c.1955
Auction: 30 October from 10:00 GMT
Description
black aluminium shade with adjustable relfector, brass, teak and steel, and wood with adjustable reflector
Dimensions
152cm high, approximately 73cm wide (59 7/8in high, approximately 28 ¾in wide)
Provenance
From a Private Collection of Post-War British Lighting.
Footnote
Literature:
The Daily Mail Ideal Home Book, 1956, p.125, for similar example.
Rayner, Geoffrey, Richard Chamberlain and Annamarie Stapleton, Austerity to Affluence: British Design 1945-1962, Merrell Publishers Ltd., London, 1997, p,101-2, cat. no.PD.39or a similar example.
Beverley Pick began working as a design consultant for GEC in 1954, creating a new collection of contemporary light fittings. This floor lamp shares clear stylistic similarities with his other lighting designs for the company. A comparable example appears in The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, 1959–60.