Audoux Minnet - A Pair of Rope Wall Lanterns
French, circa 1950’s
The lanterns formed as 19th century coaching lights with the bulb shaded by a vellum tube (replaced). Aged patina to the rope-work.
French, circa 1950’s
The lanterns formed as 19th century coaching lights with the bulb shaded by a vellum tube (replaced). Aged patina to the rope-work.
French, circa 1950’s
The lanterns formed as 19th century coaching lights with the bulb shaded by a vellum tube (replaced). Aged patina to the rope-work.
Dimensions - 60cm high x 16cm wide x 22cm projection
Adrian Audoux and Frida Minet were a Modernist designer-duo who were extremely productive during the 1940s & 1950s in Golfe-Juan, a Provencal coastal town bordering Vallauris.
They were members of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM), established in 1929 by a group of Modernist designers including, among others, Charlotte Perriand, Francis Jourdain, Louis Sognot and Pierre Chareau.
Audoux Minet's playful, innovative use of materials such as rope and tubular metal created a fresh approach to design, with woven abaca (hemp rope) becoming their hallmark.
These lanterns have been sympathetically cleaned whilst also retaining a patina of age…..there are fakes galore on the market.