Jacques Adnet: Swivel table or desk lamp Art Deco period REF C5 Dimensions: Height 42 cm Diameter 28.5 Missing interior glass. Designer: Jacques Adnet Period: 1940/1950 Jacques Adnet, is a French architect, decorator and interior designer and creator Jacques Adnet will seek collaborators in many disciplines such as glassmaking, jewelry, goldsmithing, ironwork, sculpture, brassware, etc. to train his new team. He also creates personal works and is one of the first creators to use metal and glass to make objects, lighting or furniture; his preferred materials are chrome or nickel-plated metal, mirror, Saint-Gobain glass slabs often cast on a bed of sand, Baccarat crystal, black lacquered wood or opaline. The lighting fixtures designed by Jacques Adnet between 1928 and the end of the 1930s are unlike anything that had been created until then and are resolutely modern; the art critic René Chavance calls them "lighting devices", they fit perfectly into the new line of furniture and modernist objects in metal and glass or glass with a mirrored background embedded in a metal frame that Jacques Adnet created and where no detail is superfluous. As the 1950s approached, Jacques Adnet, always wanting to innovate, developed, in collaboration with Robert Pinchon's workshop, furniture and lighting with a metal structure often covered in leather or skai (from 1955) saddle stitched . There are desks, consoles, seats, tables, lamps and floor lamps. In 1958, Jacques Adnet was appointed Officer of Arts and Letters by General de Gaulle, then President of the Republic. In 1959, he was appointed director of the National School of Decorative Arts.