{"id":428782,"date":"2025-07-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.mom\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=428782"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:03:33","slug":"gabriel-argy-rousseau-art-deco-tiger-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.mom\/blogs\/the-study\/gabriel-argy-rousseau-art-deco-tiger-lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father Was Obsessed with This French Art Deco Tiger Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer Alexandra Zagalsky’s father owned a 1920s Gabriel Argy-Rousseau<\/a> lamp just like this one<\/a>, which is available on 1stDibs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Certain objects can magically transform a room \u2014 they anchor a space, alter perspectives and serve as visual cues that draw the gaze, subtly shaping how we experience our surroundings. They also serve as time capsules \u2014 silent keepers of memory and meaning, carrying traces of the past and telling stories that enrich the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a child growing up in a redbrick Edwardian<\/a> house near the zoo in Central London, I was transfixed by a lamp in the corner of what my parents christened the Best Room. It cast a warm magenta glow, and twin tigers appeared to pace stealthily across the bottom of its fan-shaped glass<\/a> shade, as if weaving their way through the pages of a storybook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Best Room was strictly reserved for grown-ups, accessible to my brother and me only if accompanied by a parent. It was a shrine to my father\u2019s prized glass collection, many of whose pieces hailed from the Art Deco<\/a> era. The tiger lamp, designed in the 1920s by French glass artist Gabriel Argy-Rousseau<\/a> and composed of a translucent vertical shade on a boxy wrought-iron<\/a> base, was his pride and joy, displayed high on a ledge, safely out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our bohemian<\/a> home was full of eccentricities: a mix of flea-market bric-a-brac, Georgian furniture<\/a>, contemporary prints<\/a> by artists like Allen Jones<\/a> and landscape oils<\/a> by little-known Ukrainian modernists. My father, a professor of biochemistry and an avid treasure hunter, owned a G Plan<\/a> Librenza room divider best described as an ungainly bookcase, filled with dog-eared paperbacks. He also had a marble bowl<\/a> with a dented bronze bear perched on the rim, a gift from his father, which he used as a vide-poche<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a family photo from the early 1980s, the writer and her father, Peter Zagalsky, enjoy a moment of repose in their London home in what they called the Best Room. This was where he kept his glass collection, including his Gabriel Argy-Rousseau<\/a> lamp. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Zagalsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Suffice to say that, although my parents weren\u2019t precious about most things, the glassware was strictly off-limits and especially the Argy-Rousseau, which he’d acquired at auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a near-mythical presence in our home. My father described it in words I didn\u2019t understand \u2014 and nor did he explain them, knowing, perhaps, that doing so would diminish the piece\u2019s mystique. It was made of something called p\u00e2te de verre<\/a><\/em>, he said, its multicolored reliefs the result of pure \u201calchemy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, he didn\u2019t share that p\u00e2te de verre<\/em> was made by grinding glass into a powder and mixing it with a binding agent like gum arabic to create a moldable paste. However, he once revealed that the lamp appealed to his scientific mind because Argy-Rousseau worked with pigments with the precision of a chemist. My father\u2019s area of specialization was carotenoids, natural pigments responsible for the yellow, orange, red and purple colors of many plants and animals, including lobsters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I now understand the connection, but as a seven-year-old, I didn\u2019t know what all of this meant. I didn\u2019t need to. I was mesmerized by that object more than any other \u2014 not just for its glow or its charming tigers but also for the sense of wonder it conveyed, like a secret family jewel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I\u2019ve learned that Argy-Rousseau was widely recognized as a master of invention during his lifetime. Born in 1885 as Joseph-Gabriel Rousseau (he later added the first part of his wife\u2019s maiden name, Argyriades), he studied at the \u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure de c\u00e9ramique, in S\u00e8vres<\/a>, and was greatly influenced by the work of p\u00e2te de verre<\/em> pioneer Henri Cros<\/a>. Adapting a technique that dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans<\/a>, Argy-Rousseau brought the medium to new artistic heights.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gabriel Argy-Rousseau<\/a> used p\u00e2te de verre<\/a><\/em><\/em> \u2014 a paste made of ground glass and a binding agent like gum arabic \u2014 mixed with various pigments to create colorful pieces like the shade of his Tigres dans l\u2019Herbe lamp<\/a>. His signature appears below the animals’ front feet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Using glass powders and pigments derived from metal oxides, he carefully applied his colored glass paste to handcrafted ceramic molds. By building up layers of varying colors and thicknesses, he created intricate patterns and motifs that were fused together at high temperatures in a kiln. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His lustrous, almost opalesque designs<\/a> reflected the decorative tastes of the time, featuring insects, butterflies, Grecian nudes and exotic animals \u2014 all subjects that resonated with the era’s Art Nouveau<\/a> and Art Deco sensibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out more about my father\u2019s much cherished tiger lamp, displayed atop my own bookcase since his death, I turned to Ben Macklowe, of New York’s Macklowe Gallery<\/a>, which is offering its twin on 1stDibs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know of at least three examples of this lamp, two of which were documented in the [1991] Argy-Rousseau book by Janine Bloch-Dermant,\u201d says Macklowe, who adds that the tigers were directly influenced by ancient Persian lion relief panels exhibited at the Louvre since 1909. These impacted many fin-de-si\u00e8cle creators, including the famous painter Henri Rousseau<\/a>, who shared Argy-Rousseau\u2019s affinity for big cats in addition to sharing his family name (although the two aren\u2019t known to be related).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is almost the night-light version of a Henri Rousseau painting in subject matter and stylization,\u201d says Macklowe, pointing to its parallels with that artist’s jungle series, especially his 1891 canvas Surprised!<\/a><\/em>, also known as Tiger in a Tropical Storm<\/em>, which depicts the cat crouching in tall grass, ready to pounce on its prey.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The design of Gabriel Argy-Rousseau<\/a>\u2019s Tigres dans l\u2019Herbe lamp<\/a> was likely influenced by both Machine Age<\/a> aesthetics and ancient Persian lion friezes displayed at the Louvre. Even the lamp’s wrought-iron base is embellished with grooves that resemble tiger stripes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Argy-Rousseau\u2019s tigers are less menacing and more serene, although one does appear to be growling, perhaps in protection of its companion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another interesting point of difference is the vegetation, not green and leafy but angular, mauve in color and cast in the shape of an asymmetrical ribbed fan. Created three decades after Rousseau\u2019s painting, this abstracted rendition of a jungle landscape was, according to Macklowe, guided by the industrial advances of the Machine Age<\/a>, specifically the construction of the first skyscrapers. Were Argy-Rousseau alive today, the gallerist would quiz him further on this point. \u201cI would ask him what he felt the role of the aesthetics of the past was in his rapidly changing world,\u201d says Macklowe, \u201cand how he felt about the role of beauty in the modern city.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A prolific craftsman, Argy-Rousseau produced between 15,000 and 20,000 p\u00e2te de verre<\/em> pieces in his lifetime, including a series of jewelry pendants. Pristine examples of functional treasures like the tiger lamp, however, are exceedingly rare and much coveted. Indeed, many of his creations now reside in elite settings, says Macklowe \u2014 among them, the homes of \u201cseveral high-profile clients of ours, including actors, musicians and famous founders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Macklowe, the appeal of the lamp lies in its subtle ability to engage the eye and hold our attention. \u201cThis is a beautiful example of complementary colors,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re so striking and read quite beautifully from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My lamp, though, rests within arm\u2019s reach, in a more minimalist room than before, made exceptional by its presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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Alexandra Zagalsky is a London-based journalist specializing in luxury topics, art and travel content. She began her journalistic career in Paris, where she worked on a cultural guide for English-speaking expats. Her first big break was an interview with Lionel Poil\u00e2ne, the late, venerable baker from Paris\u2019s Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s district who popularized the two-kilogram sourdough loaf and once made a bread chandelier for Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/a>.

Zagalsky moved back to London in her early 20s and has since worked with a number of august publications, including the Week<\/em>, the Telegraph<\/em>, the Times<\/em> and a variety of art and design outlets, such as Introspective<\/em><\/a> and V&A<\/em>, Sotheby\u2019s<\/em> and Christie\u2019s<\/em> magazines. She studied fine art and the history of art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and continues to explore the contemporary art scene, including the world of NFTs.

She has written extensively on the subject of vintage watches<\/a> and describes the Cartier<\/a> Crash as her favorite timepiece. \u201cIt\u2019s a great emblem of the Swinging Sixties and an adaptation of the house\u2019s classic Baignoire<\/a> Allong\u00e9e wristwatch, its sinuous Daliesque style apparently inspired by a model brought into the London Cartier workshop that had been distorted in a car crash,\u201d she says. \u201cI love it for all sorts of reasons, not least because it\u2019s so unconventional and daring, as all great design objects often are.\u201d

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