Georges Leleu | 4 Frosted Glass Wall Lights | France c.1925-35 | SOLD

Etablissement Georges Leleu, Paris (1920-40)

Georges Leleu 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.