MAX INGRAND (1908-1969) FOR THE RADIO HOUSE (INAUGURATED IN 1963 )10.021, version with 7 glass slides, the model created around [1960], our examples installed around 1961-63 in the Variety Room of the Maison de la RadioPair of large recessed wall lights. The diffusion of light is ensured, for each luminaire, by 7 thick glass sheets with broken lines on the façades (4 concave and 3 convex) and arranged alternately by type of profile. The side plates are made of varnished brass. The recessed mounting brackets in white lacquered brass. Max Ingrand Editions. Slight traces of oxidation on the brass parts, small scratches on the surface of the brass parts, one plate damaged and uneven on both sides and small scratches on one wall light, four plates uneven at the ends on the other wall light. Height: 100 cm - Width: 23.5 cm - Depth: 17 cmProvenance and history : Maison de la Radio (formerly O.R.T.F., now the Radio France group) - Our pair of wall lights installed in the Salle des variétés designed and fitted out by Jean Niermans between 1961 and 1963 . The Maison de la Radio was inaugurated by General de Gaulle on 14 December 1963 after work had begun in 1958 on a 1954 architectural project. Bibliography : - Supplement to the Annals of the Technical Institute of Building and Public Works; special issue L'aménagement des salles de spectacle de la Maison de la Radio à Paris by Jean Niermans - N° 205 of January 1965 . Published by the Institut Technique du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics, Paris, 1965. Our wall lights described on page 13 and appearing in photographs No. 13 and 14 (Variety room) reproduced on pages 12 and 13 - Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier - Max Ingrand, du verre à la lumière - Éditions Norma, Paris, 2009 . Our sconce model appearing on an archive photograph reproduced on page 215 and its reference noted in the legend.