Pierre Casenove, French Brutalist Silvered Cast Bronze Sculpture Lamp Pierre Casenove Fondica Art, c.1990's

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Pierre Casenove (French)
Silver patina bronze table lamp having a column form and various stamped patterns to the body, stamped … more Pierre Casenove (French)
Silver patina bronze table lamp having a column form and various stamped patterns to the body, stamped signed mark to back of base.
Approximate dimensions: base h. 21", w. 5" X 5".
This is a bit more rare as most of his pieces were in a gilt gold finish.

Pierre Casenove is a French ceramicist and designer. Born in 1943 in Céret, France a small town at the foot of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean. He built his first kiln oven at the age of 20. During a Tour de France workshop according to plans by Jaqueline and Jean Lerat in La Borne. He studied at the Beaux-Arts, where he specialized in ceramics. Since then he has explored many fields and associating his name with leading brands in the design world: he created glassware for La Rochère, porcelain for Medard de Noblat, lighting for Berger and furniture for Woody, becoming artistic director of the Jars Cèramique company and finally setting up on his own in 2012. Casenove’s philosophy is to link the human and the object, designing simple, authentic pieces for the home that are both useful and beautiful. In the early 1980s he began to design and create for the ceramic and porcelain design brands. Gien, Sarreguemines, Luneville and Limoges. Pierre Casenove has also designed numerous products for prestigious brands such as L'Oreal, Baccarat, Christian Dior and Ligne Roset. His creations have been exhibited in museums and art galleries around the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and MoMA in New York.
In 2010, he founded his own design agency, Casenove+Raymond, with graphic designer Véronique Raymond. Together, they have worked on projects ranging from industrial and graphic design to space planning.
Pierre Casenove has also been teaching at ENSCI since 1995, and was appointed professor in 2009. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institut Français du Design from 2009 to 2015.
In the early 1990s he helped the founders of the Jars brand to become what it is today. He seems very proud to have fought so hard for certain aesthetic utopias, those of his generation and of his masters, basically those of the Bauhaus. He designed for Fondica along with Georges Mathias, Regis Dho, Stephane Galerneau and Nicolas Dewael. In the style of Garouste et Bonetti, Giacometti, Maison Jansen, Baguès, Charles, Hollywood Regency. Exhibited at the Galerie Exante in Rome (paintings and objects) from 1990 to 2001, Exhibitions at Galerie Bensimon (2016), School Gallery (2017) in Paris then at Galerie OΔK since September 2019.
Exposition Claude Cartier, Lyon (2020)
Exposition Villa Benkemoun, Arles (June 2021)
Pierre Casenove is also presented at MERCI Paris and Claude Cartier Lyon. less