Table lamp 'Exposition Paris'

Model: Exposition Paris 1925 / nr.75/100 / Designer: Marcel Breuer / 400 purchase + transport & co / Brass lamp designed by Marcel Breuer for the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1925 (cod.75/100 – Exposition Paris 1925), impeccable in its original configuration.
Made of brass and nickel plated, there are only 100 pieces and it is therefore numbered on the back.
Born and raised in Pécs, Hungary, famed modernist architect-designer Marcel Breuer was awarded a scholarship to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, where he studied painting but soon left to apply to the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany. After completing his preliminary courses, he apprenticed in the Bauhaus furniture workshop between 1921 and 1924, before taking over the workshop at the new Bauhaus in Dessau, where he created what is cited as the first tubular steel chair (1925–1926), introduced in 1927 as the Type B3 Steel Club Chair (later renamed the Wassily after Bauhaus master Wassily Kandinsky).
After a brief stint in Switzerland, Breuer joined former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius in London in 1935. As his career progressed, Breuer began to focus more on architectural projects rather than design. In addition to his tubular steel and plywood products for the Isokon company, he is also known for his residences, shop interiors, and many competition entries.
In 1937, Breuer and Gropius moved to the United States, both teaching at Harvard and briefly partnering in an architectural practice. Together, they designed the Pennsylvania Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, as well as several private homes. Their partnership ended in 1941, but the two remained friends, and in 1946 Breuer left Harvard to open a practice in New York. During the rest of his career, Breuer designed more than seventy private homes and many university and office buildings. Notably, in 1948, the MoMA in New York organized a traveling exhibition of his work, and the following year, commissioned him to design a house in its garden; both events gave a decisive boost to Breuer's career. In 1953, he designed the UNESCO headquarters in Paris with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfulss, and in 1963 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Breuer died in New York in 1981.