Les Luminaires de Serge Mouille & who used them first

Christine D'Ornano's London home. photo by Simon Upton 2010

Serge Mouille's sculptural lighting fixtures have kept hanging in my thoughts for a while now. Looking at all these rooms I can't quite point out which one makes best use of them. I guess It's because the lightings' architectural silhouettes go well in any kind of interior, from contemporary to classic to country to modern and it's funny how over-scaled the sconces usually are but at the same time they don't overtake from the rest of the design of a room. I did a little research on rooms displaying Serge Mouille's lighting in an attempt to get to see the first room ever that displayed one, but I quickly realized it would take a few months of research and possibly a trip or two to Paris to figure that out. And that is because Sege Mouille was a French silversmith who graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Paris, eventually becoming a teacher there while having his own metalworking studio and devoted most of his life to designing lighting fixtures. "Throughout the 1950’s Mouille designed large, angular, insect-like wall mounted and standing lamps with several arms and smaller, more curved wall-sconces." Mouille's website

Les Luminaires de Serge Mouille are sold in the US through a few dealers, to find out go here. One of his lighting fixtures is something I would really love to own but because they normally run around the $5,000 I think I will keep postponing it until further notice.

photo by Simon Upton, designer Blathnaid Behan, April 2007

Betsy Brown living room House Beautiful, 2007

Jenna Lyons famous brownstone 2008.

Geoffrey Goldberg & Lynne Remington. Photo by Nathan Kirk Jan. 2008

Nate Berkus Milan's apartment 2009

Kevin Carrigan & Tim Furzer 2007

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