Hot Pamono Wall Lights attributed to Mathieu Mategot, 1950s, Set of 3

France, 1950s.

Very rare pieces by this fabulous designer.

Yellow lacquered perforated metal frame with a brass rim.
The reflectors are made of brass, with small openings allowing a light beam to pass through. Two small brass pieces adorn and decorate the sconces.
Each sconces hold two small screw-in bulbs, 6 in total (included).

Very good condition, some signs of age, but nothing significant; see photos.

Mathieu Matégot:

1910 – 2001

Mathieu Matégot was born in 1910 in Tapio-Sully, Hungary. He studied at the Budapest School of Fine Arts from 1925, where he met Vasarely. He arrived in Paris in 1931.
from 1939 to 1944, he devoted himself to tapestry work.

During the Second World War, he was assigned to a mechanical engineering factory, working with steel and its derivatives.
Upon his return to Paris, he once again devoted himself to his passion: tapestry.
In his work as a decorator, he combined metal, rattan, perforated sheet metal, leather, and glass, meeting with great success.
Impressed by the perforated sheet metal work in Germany during the war, he envisioned a new use for metal applied to decoration.
Growing demand prompted him to diversify his production and distribution capacity. He added factories in Casablanca and London to the Parisian workshop.
In 1964, he decided to devote his time exclusively to tapestry and stopped decorating.

The first non-figurative cartoon painter, accustomed to murals as a painter and theater designer, he produced new cartoons in a completely innovative style published in Aubusson.
He was initially influenced by Jean Lurçat, then freed himself from him to adopt a rigorously abstract approach.
He expressed himself solely through signs, rhythms, and color schemes, enhanced by the natural beauty of wool fiber.

An Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, Grand Prix d’honneur at the Madrid International Exhibition in 1953, Gold Medal from the Society for the Encouragement of Art and Industry in 1955, Diploma of Honor from the Brussels Universal Exhibition in 1958, and Gold Medal from the 12th Milan Triennale, he is recognized as a major artist.

His well-deserved reputation has earned him private and public commissions for projects he designed and built in France, such as La Maison de la Radio, the Casino de Cannes, the Prefecture of Seine Maritime in Rouen, and Air France.