Vintage table lamp M3 by Michel Mortier reissued by Sammode

In line with the reissue of the Pierre Guariche collection, it is the turn of Michel Mortier’s vintage M3 table lamp to be reissued. Functional and pure, this light with an industrial and vintage design will allow you to create multiple lighting atmospheres.

The original M3 desk lamp,
designed in 1952

In 1952, the famous designer Michel Mortier designed the M3 desk lamp, which is also available as a wall lamp. Subtly designed, the two-tone lacquered metal lampshade competes with the carefully curved brass tube base.

The M3 design table lamp – reissued by Sammode 70 years later

In 2022, 70 years later, Sammode is reissuing Michel Mortier’s M3 model. This is anything but a coincidence. For many years now, our quest for aesthetics and technology has been reminiscent of the one once pursued by Michel Mortier himself. As it was also, at the time, by a colleague and friend of the designer, Pierre Guariche, whose Sammode is already reissuing a large collection of lighting. The affinities between Michel Mortier and Sammode are legion. They have a name: innovation.

Sammode has put at the service of this re-edition its industrial expertise in the manufacture of lighting. In particular the accuracy of the lighting and a deep knowledge of metal work. Faithful to the original design, the M3 lamp by Sammode benefits from an exceptional quality of realization and a French manufacture.

Michel Mortier : Designer and interior architect, but not only…

Attempting to condense the life of Michel Mortier (1925-2015) under a single hat is an exercise doomed to failure, as the man had so many strings to his bow. Design of course, but also interior architecture, art direction, graphic design or journalism, not to mention teaching.

It was on the advice of the architect Marcel Lods that Michel Mortier entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Paris, where he studied under Louis Sognot, René Gabriel and Étienne-Henri Martin. The latter, he admits, taught him “the sense of perfection” and “the taste of a perfectly finished drawing”.

During his career, Mortier designed private residences, offices (EDF, Ugine Kuhlmann, the Caisse Nationale de l’Energie or the cookie factory L’Alsacienne), as well as the Maxim’s restaurants at Orly and Roissy airports.

Passionate about transmission, he also devoted himself to teaching in the years 1960-1970. In Paris at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués. As well as at the École supérieure d’art graphique in Montreal.

Michel Mortier : Designer and interior architect with a pure style

His style? A spirit that rejects the anecdotal, an elegant design that tends towards purity, and a subtle sense of color and materials. His intelligent and joyful mastery of space makes Mortier one of the best decorators of his generation.

His work has been rewarded with numerous distinctions. In 1954, at the age of 29, he won a gold medal at the Xth Triennale in Milan. Then, in France, less than a decade later, in 1963, the prestigious René-Gabriel prize which rewards “designers who imagine innovative models in a qualitative and economic range“.