Wrapping a lamp in stitched leather was one of French design's quiet luxuries — a treatment made famous in the circle of Jacques Adnet, where the leather houses lent their saddle-stitching to furniture and lighting. The logic was tactile: a desk lamp is handled every day, switched on, tilted, moved, and leather is the one material that improves under exactly that treatment, taking on the burnish of use the way a good briefcase does.
This lamp is French, from the 1960s–70s, by the leather house Le Tanneur: a tapered baluster stem and squared plinth base sheathed entirely in red-bordeaux leather, punctuated by a single polished chrome sphere at the stem's foot, and wearing its original drum shade in parchment-toned material with dark trim. Look at where the leather rounds the corners of the square base — covering compound curves in leather without a wrinkle is hide-worker's territory, not lamp-maker's, which is why these lamps came from leather houses rather than lighting workshops. The electricity is in working order, and the lamp arrives with the appropriate plug or adapter fitted for your country, ready to use.
The leather has kept its colour well, and the original shade shows a few dents and marks but no tears — stated plainly, and part of the lamp's original ensemble rather than a replacement. Whoever switched this lamp on at their desk before you kept it complete. It belongs on a desk, a library table, or a study shelf.
The lamp is leather over a solid core with its original shade, in working order. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping, with all import duties paid by us, so there is nothing to settle on delivery. Returns are accepted within 30 days.
DETAILS:
Total height: 57 cm (22.4 in) · Base: 12.5 × 12.5 cm (4.9 × 4.9 in) — with shade, roughly the height of a bar stool
Red-bordeaux leather over stem and base; chrome sphere detail; original drum shade included
Electrical: in working order; plug or adapter fitted for the buyer's country; delivered ready to use
Condition: good vintage condition; leather colour well kept, original shade with a few dents and marks, no tears
