A rare art deco opalescent-glass display-light ideal to create some mood-lighting in the corner of a room, both pieces of glass signed “Leleu” and secured with chromed-metal ring support, all mounted on a chromed metal base. France, c.1925-35.

Ht. 23cm/9ins; w.20.5/8

Etablissement Georges Leleu, Paris (1920-40)

GeorgesLeleu 1883-1961

• Georges Leleu was a prominent French lighting designer whose career spanned the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods
• Leleu was one of the few high-profile designers to commission bespoke glass from Verreries des Hanots. While Hanots produced its own line of glass, they acted as a foundry for Leleu’s specific visions.
• Many of the thick, frosted, and geometric glass shades found on Leleu’s Art Deco chandeliers and lamps were manufactured exclusively for him at the Hanots factory in Les Andelys
• Leleu founded his company, Leleu & Robillard, at the turn of the century in Paris, initially specialising in intricate Art Nouveau oil lamps decorated with naturalistic motifs like mistletoe and pine cones.
• Art Deco Mastery: After World War I, he rebranded as Etablissement Georges Leleu and shifted toward the modernist “streamline” look of the 1920s and 30s.
• His firm was a major presence at the 1925 International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris, helping define the French Art Deco aesthetic.
• The business operated from the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris until it closed in the late 1930s.