P. GILLES & DEGUE : FRENCH ART DECO CHANDELIER 1930 ..... lamp lustre muller era

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P. GILLES & DEGUE : FRENCH ART DECO CHANDELIER 1930 ..... lamp lustre muller era:
$3100.00

Pierre Gilles

Abeautiful French1925-1930 art decochandelier innickel onbronze or solid brass holding4shades and4 panelsin moulded-pressed glass. In the typical neo-classical art deco style of Gilles.Pierre Gilleswas a french designer with a factory and lighting shop in Paris. The shades of this large chandelier were produced for Gilles by Degué the famous glass factory of David Guéron.Allfour panelson this chandelierare signed Gilles France.And the fourside shades are signed Degué. Bronze of P.Gilles is always of outstanding quality with very fine details. Thechandelier has aheight of61 cm (24\") and is about63 cm wide (24-51/64\"). It\'s invery good condition. I haverenickeled and patinatedthe fixture and it comes newly wired. The chandelier is rewired with US candelabra base sockets. I can replace them for european E14 ones or B22 bayonet cap sockets.Free worldwide shipping by priority mail with full insurance. Very safe package. The lamp will be shipped intwoparcels.

French lamps and wiring

Art deco lamps made in France were equiped with B22 bayonet sockets. For most countries like Europe or the US such sockets are practicaly impossible to use. For instance in the States 110 volt bulbs with B22 fitters are obscure, very hard to find and only one model bulb in very limited wattages is available. In spite of what sellers of unrestored pieces of poor quality claim in their ads when they offer lamps with bayonet caps sockets : except for the UK and Australia French chandeliers and lamps need to be rewired for your country. In order to fit Edison large or small screw base bulbs as used in the USA, B22 sockets have to be replaced by American candelabra base or standard/medium size Edison screw-in sockets. E14 and E27 are modern replacements for European countries. An additional complication is that the size thread used in early French lighting to connect the sockets to the chandelier mountings or lamp bases is not compatible with the modern size threads used in the USA and Europe. New American or European sockets do not just screw on to the old lamp fixtures. In order to make it possible to use an original old French chandelier or lamp with modern screw bulb bases, a specialized restorer will have to re-tap the threads. All my cleaned and restored chandeliers, sconces and lamps come rewired with the correct sockets you will need to use modern bulbs in your country.

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