By the 1960s, the French wall light had learned to gesture. The stiff symmetrical sconce of earlier decades loosened into sprays of thin brass rod — arms crossing and flaring like grasses — with the shades tilted outward at the angles of the atomic age. Sold in mirrored pairs, they were designed to bracket a bed or a doorway with the two sprays leaning toward each other, a small choreography on the wall.
This pair is French, from the 1960s, and properly mirrored — a left and a right: each sconce a rectangular brass backplate from which two slender rods curve up and outward, crossing a pair of downswept tails, each rod carrying a tilted cone shade of white glass collared top and bottom in clear diamond-pressed bands. Hold a shade to the light and look at the pressed bands — the diamond texture is in the glass itself, molded, and its job appears only when lit: the white cone glows evenly while the clear bands scatter sparkle up the wall. Both sconces have been fully rewired through our workshop before dispatch and arrive prepared for wall installation, in working order.
All four glasses are intact and matching, the brass bright with light age-consistent wear, as the photographs show. Whoever hung this mirrored pair before you kept both halves of the choreography together. They are ready to flank a bed, a mirror, or a doorway.
The pair is brass and glass, mirrored left and right, rewired before dispatch. 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:
Each sconce: Height 28 cm (11 in) · Width 27 cm (10.6 in) — each roughly the spread of an open hardcover
Weight of pair: 1,412 g (3.1 lb)
Brass frames; white glass cone shades with clear diamond-pressed collars · Sold as a mirrored pair (left and right)
Electrical: two lights each; fully rewired before dispatch; wall-mounted, for fixed installation; delivered in working order
Condition: very good condition; all four glasses intact, brass bright with light age-consistent wear
