A pair of Art Deco Wall lights by Henri Mouynet set into original cast brass mounts. France c.1930

Provenance & catalogue picture credited to Michiel Paravas.

Henri Mouynet, Paris 1926-1937

•  Henri Mouynet was a producer of bronze and forged iron lighting fixtures during the interbellum.

• His lamps were mainly in a neo-classical style but he also produced lighting in a more modern Art Deco style.

• In 1926 he built a huge building at 11 rue Etienne Marcel prolongée (taday named Roger Verlomme street).

• The Business was forced into liquidation and sold to H.Markhbeinn  in 1937.

• The moulded-pressed glass signed H.Mouynet were produced by the well known glass maker’s of Degué and Schneider.