Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
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Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS
Rope Chandelier Design Object Mid-Century Modern French Work circa 1970 | Maison BARROIS

Rope Chandelier, Design Object, Mid-Century Modern, French Work, circa 1970

Design rope chandelier. French work. Circa 1970.

W. 88 cm × D. 73 cm × H. 87 cm

Réf : 50's-56376
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Dimensions en CM 88 x 73 x 87 cm
Dimensions en INCH 34.65 x 28.74 x 34.25 inch
Période 1970–1980
Style Mid-Century Modern

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

By 1970, French interior design had developed two distinct and seemingly contradictory vocabularies: the gilded, historicist grandeur of the neoclassical revival, and a quieter, more tactile register that privileged natural materials, organic forms and the honest quality of the artisan’s hand. The rope chandelier belongs to the second current. Cord, jute and natural fibre had entered the French interior from the maritime workshops of Brittany and Normandy, and their translation into suspended lighting objects — chandeliers, pendants, ceiling fixtures of unexpected scale — became one of the defining idioms of the French designer-décorateur of the early 1970s.

This chandelier, worked in rope with the assurance of a trained craftsman, is substantial: at 88 centimetres wide and 87 in height, it commands space in the manner of a traditional bronze chandelier but with a radically different material proposition. The structure of the piece exploits the inherent properties of the cord — its weight, its twist, its capacity to hold form when knotted or coiled — to create a three-dimensional object that is at once lamp and sculpture. The warm, neutral tonality of natural rope reads beautifully against white plaster, exposed stone or the warm timber panelling of a 1970s interior.

Today the rope chandelier occupies a distinctive position in the market for French mid-century decorative objects: neither as recognisably collectible as the canonical designs of the post-war ateliers, nor as anonymous as a purely functional piece, it offers the collector an object of real presence at a point where its cultural moment is being reassessed with renewed interest. In excellent condition. Width 88 cm, depth 73 cm, height 87 cm.

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