Lot 197
JOHN & SYLVIA REID (BRITISH 1925-1992 & 1924-2022) FOR ROTAFLEX, GREAT BRITAIN
TELESCOPIC TRIPOD FLOOR LAMP, c.1958-9
Auction: 30 October from 10:00 GMT
Description
model F347/A, spun cellulose acetate Ovoid diffuser shade, brass and black steel tripod base
Dimensions
120cm high, 38.5cm diameter (47 ¼in high, 15 1/8in diameter)
Provenance
From a Private Collection of Post-War British Lighting.
Footnote
Literature:
Weaving, Andrew, Living Retro, Ryland Peters & Small, London, 2008, p.75, for a similar example with a Sphere type shade.
The ‘Ovoid’ pendant, with its innovative cellulose acetate shade, earned Rotaflex and the Reids a Designs of the Year award from the Council of Industrial Design in 1957.
Examples of the shade are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum) and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.