Pair of French Art Deco Brass Wall SconcesDiamond Backplate Two-Arm — France, circa 1930

DETAILS:
Size: each — Height 19 cm (7.5 in) · Width 25 cm (9.8 in) · Depth 18 cm (7.1 in) · Backplate 7 × 19 cm (2.8 × 7.5 in)
Material: polished brass
Style/Period: French Art Deco, circa 1930
Sockets: two per sconce, four total — small Edison screw (E14); inspected and tested before dispatch, rewired where needed, and delivered working and ready to use
Lampshades: not included
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide —; total weight 1.2 kg the pair
Condition: good; brass bright and sound across both; honest wear consistent with use
Returns: accepted within 30 days

Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.

The Art Deco period brought geometry to the wall sconce with a confidence that no previous style had quite managed. Where the Louis XV manner had dissolved structure into organic curves and the Louis XVI had reached for classical columns, the Deco designers of the 1920s and 1930s embraced the straight line, the diamond, the chevron — ornament drawn from the machine age and the cubist canvas rather than from the garden or from Rome. The result was a sconce that declared its moment without apology, and that has aged well precisely because it never pretended to be anything other than what it was.

This pair is French, circa 1930, in polished brass, and the design is pared to its essentials. Each sconce is built around a pointed shield-form backplate — its face engraved with a diamond lattice pattern in two registers, the lower section more tightly worked than the upper, the contrast giving the backplate its visual weight at the base. Two gently curved arms sweep outward from the shoulders of the backplate, each rising to a wide flat disc bobèche and socket — the generous disc form that the Art Deco lamp designers favoured over the lobed bobèche of earlier styles, because it reads cleanly from across a room. Note how the arms are plain and unornamented, relying entirely on their curve and their proportion to carry the design — the restraint of a designer who understood that ornament on the backplate and ornament on the arms compete rather than complement. The brass is polished and even across both sconces.

The brass is bright and sound across the pair; both sconces are well matched and in good working order, the honest wear of use present and consistent with their age. They arrive inspected and tested before dispatch, rewired where needed, and delivered working and ready to use.

They arrive professionally packed and fully insured. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

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