Edition Serge Mouille is the only repository of the legacy of Serge Mouille, the pioneer French industrial designer and goldsmith, reference for his lighting fixtures of sculptural aesthetics. A passionate family-owned company, Editions Serge Mouille is the major player in the production of Serge Mouille lamps, being the only holder of the reproduction rights for Serge Mouille lights.
Heritage
Known primarily for his work as a designer of lighting fixtures, Serge Mouille (1922-1988) received a master silversmith diploma from the School of Applied Arts in Paris. He studied with silversmith and sculptor Gilbert LaCroix and, after graduation in 1941, went to work in his studio. In 1945 Mouille himself became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts and opened his own metalworking studio. At that point, his design commissions were mostly for handrails, chandeliers and wall sconces.
It is the meeting with Jacques Adnet, director of the Company of the French Arts, in 1951 that will be a turning point in Serge Mouille’s life. In 1953 he asked him to design a big lamp for his South American customers. Serge Mouille set to work and passed from craftsman to creator artist with the famous Black lightings series. The standing-lamp with three arms and the standing lamp with one arm will be his first models. Serge Mouille settled down in Monthiers in 1963, just a few kilometres from where Editions Serge Mouille recreates his works of art. Gin Mouille (Serge Mouille widow) and Claude Delpiroux founded the company in 1999 with the aim of keeping the legacy Serge Mouille alive.
Craftmanship
The lamps of Editions Serge Mouille are reproduced, authentically and accurately, and with unique serial numbers. They range with a large variety of styles, such as ceiling lamps, wall mounted lamps, standing lamps, desk lamps and column lamps. Exclusively Made in France, the authentic and original lighting of Editions Serge Mouille are manufactured in local workshops by experienced artisans. The lightings are all made to order, numbered and delivered with their certificate of authenticity.
True to the know-how of the famous artisan craftsman, the workshop also produces bespoke pieces for its exclusive clientele. Inspired by Serge Mouille ideas from when he created the SCM (Company of Models Creation) in 1961, Editions Serge Mouille created a new company named Lignes De Démarcation in 2013. Following Mouille legacy, the company is committed to faithfully reproducing and spreading the work of other designers and artists as Michel Buffet, François Azambourg, Jean-Louis Avril.
“We were inspired to create this company which brings to life faithfully the works of Serge. We try to be the diamond in the dust as we are the unique French legal reproducers among the French designers, which keeps his artisanal spirit alive”.
Excellence
Throughout the 1950s Mouille designed large, angular, insect-like wall mounted and standing lamps with several arms and smaller, more curved wall-sconces. Some of his best-known designs from the period are his “Oeil” lamp (1953), “Flames” (1954) and “Saturn” (1958). He worked to achieve a kinetic, sculptural aesthetic that evoked a sense of movement in space. He also claimed his lighting fixtures were “a reaction to the Italian models, which were beginning to invade the market in 1950,” and which he thought to be “too complicated.” Mouille established the SCM (Société de Création de Modèles) in 1961 as a way to encourage young and emerging lighting designers. He worked and taught for the rest of his life, showing his lighting and jewellery at several exhibitions. For his career as a metalsmith and designer, he was awarded a medal from the City of Paris from the Directors of Professional Artists.
Uniqueness
In 1955 he became a member of the Society of Decorative Artists and of the French National Art Society. In the same year he was awarded the Charles Plumet prize for his work and in 1958 he received a Diploma of Honor at the Brussels Expo. Mouille began, towards the end of the decade, to design some institutional lighting and he was responsible, over the next several years, for designing the lighting at the University in Antony, for schools in Strasbourg and Marseilles and for the Bizerte Cathedral. Also towards the end of the 1950s, the invention of neon tubes inspired Mouille to create a series of floor lamps that combined incandescence and fluorescence. These designs, called the “Colonnes” collection, had their debut at the 1962 Salon for interior design, and are some of his better known later works.
Edition Serge Mouille 是一个充满激情的家族企业， 也是法国工业设计师和金匠先驱Serge Mouille的宝库，他的照明设计是雕塑美学的参考。Editions Serge Mouille是Serge Mouille灯具的主要生产商，也是Serge Mouille 灯复制权的唯一持有者。
历史
Serge Mouille(1922-1988)主要以设计灯具而闻名，他获得了巴黎 School of Applied Arts颁发的银匠硕士学位。他从师于雕塑家和银匠 Gilbert LaCroix，并在1941年毕业后加入了他的工作室。1945年，Mouille本人成为了School of Applied Arts的教师，并开设了自己的金属工作室。当时，他的设计主要是设计扶手、吊灯和壁饰。1951年与法国Company of the French Arts公司董事Jacques Adnet的会面，成为Serge Mouille 一生的转折点。1953年，Jacques Adnet要Serge Mouille为南美的客户设计一盏大灯。Serge Mouille开始通过创作著名的Black灯系列从工匠提升到创作艺术家。三个手臂和一个手臂的立灯是他的第一个设计模型。1963年，Serge Mouille在离Editions Serge Mouille创作室只有几公里的Monthiers定居下来。1999年，Gin Mouille （Serge Mouille的遗孀)和Claude Delpiroux创立了这家公司，让Serge Mouille的设计作品延续下去。
工艺技术
这些Editions Serge Mouille的灯是用独特的序列号真实而精确的复制。他们有各种各样的风格，如天花板灯，壁灯，立灯，台灯和柱灯。
在法国独家制作的Editions Serge Mouille的原创灯光是由经验丰富的工匠在当地的工作室制作的。所有灯具均按订单制造，并随其认证证书编号交付。拥有专业知识著名工匠的工作室还为其客户生产独家定制产品。Serge Mouille的灵感来自于他1961年创建的SCM(Company of Models Creation)，Editions Serge Mouille在2013年创建了名为Lignes De boundary ation的新公司。继Mouille legacy之后，该公司致力于忠实地再现和传播其他设计师和艺术家，如Michel Buffet, Francois Azambourg, Jean-Louis Avril的作品。
“我们受到启发创立了这家公司，它让我们忠实地把Serge的作品带入生活中。我们试图成为尘埃中的钻石，因为我们是法国设计师中惟一的合法生产者，以使他的手工制作精神得以延续”
卓越杰出的品牌
50年代，Mouille设计了巨大，有棱角，昆虫状的壁灯，有几个臂和更小，更弯曲的壁灯。在那个时期他最著名的设计是“Oeil”灯(1953)，“Flames”(1954)和“Saturn”(1958)。他努力实现一种动态的、雕塑般的美感，在空间中唤起动感。他还声称自己的灯具是“对1950年开始进入市场的意大利模式的反应”，他认为这“太复杂了”。Mouille于1961年建立了SCM (Société de Création de Modèles)，以鼓励年轻和新兴的照明设计师。他一生都在进行设计和教学，并在数个展览展示他的照明和珠宝设计。作为金属工匠和设计师，他获得了巴黎市政府颁发的Directors of Professional Artists奖章。
独特设计
1955年，他成为法国Society of Decorative Artists和French National Art Society的成员。同年，他的作品获得了Charles Plumet奖，并于1958年在布鲁塞尔世博会上获得了Diploma of Honor荣誉学位。 多年来，Mouille为各种机构设计照明，在接下来的几年里，他负责的设计包括 University in Antony，Strasbourg 和 Marseilles，以及在Bizerte大教堂的照明。而且在50年代末，霓虹灯的发明让Mouille设计了一系列结合了白炽灯和荧光的地板灯。这些被称为“Colonnes“的设计，在1962年的室内设计沙龙(Salon for interior design)首次展出，并成为他后期更为人所知的设计作品。
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