Table lamp M3

Designer

Michel Mortier

French designer revolutionises residential lighting Light is a field in which Michel Mortier has always shown a keen interest and an unrivalled imagination. His style? A spirit that rejects the anecdotal, an elegant design that tends towards purity, a subtle sense of colour and materials. In the early 1950s, Michel Mortier designed a series of luminaires that he named with a simple “M”: “M1”, “M2”, “M3“, and so on. They were all produced by the lamp manufacturer Disderot. Each has its own unique characteristics. The M1 floor lamp, for example, is a sort of tripod “pedestal-lighting table”, made up of a lampshade and, halfway up, a wickerwork top. The M...