Floor lamp; PAUL KISS (1885-1962), France, c.1930.

Floor lamp; PAUL KISS (1885-1962), France, c.1930.
Wrought iron.
Bibliography: Art deco -ironwork and sculpture - Variant on page 100 and Art deco decorative ironwork by Clouzot, p.19.
Measurements: 190 x 25 cm.
Floor lamp with a sculptural design that combines geometric elements. The structure is composed of an elongated conical body, made of wrought iron with a textured pattern. The stepped, symmetrical base reinforces the architectural character of the piece.
Paul Kiss was a Hungarian metallurgist who developed his professional activity in Paris. He settled in the French capital in 1907, where he worked for the metallurgists Edgar Brandt and Raymond Subes. After World War I, he set up his workshop and showroom on rue Delhomme in Paris. Among his clients were the kings of Egypt and Siam (present-day Thailand). He designed and forged the Porte du Monument aux Martyrs de la Guerre, in Levallois-Perret. He incorporated bird and plant motifs, some figures and geometric shapes in his wrought iron lamps, brackets, consoles, gates, railings and railings.
He received a silver medal for the Levallois-Perret monument, exhibited at the 1924 Salon de la Société des Artistes Français. Kiss's work was exhibited at the Salons de la Société des Artistes Français, the Société des Artistes Décorateurs and (including a pair of wrought iron gates for the Savary Pavilion) at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris.