Val-Saint-Lambert, Lamp in transparent and purple moulded crystal, 1960’s

Val-Saint-Lambert, attributed to.

Lamp in stylized baluster shaped transparent moulded crystal, purple doubled.

Work realized in the 1960’s.

New and functional electric system.

Dimensions : H 45 x D 13,5 cm.

Reference : LS3868201

! The price doesn’t include the lampshade price. However, our workshop can advise you with pleasure and realize it with your size and color choices !

The Val-Saint-Lambert crystal glassware was founded in 1826 in Belgium on the site of an old Cistercian abbey. François Kemlin (1784-1855), an old collaborator of the Imperial and Royal Glassware of Vonêche decided to install it to Val-Saint-Lambert thanks to financial supports of Guillaume d’Orange and Baron Joseph de Bonaert. He was the director general until 1838 and then was replaced by Auguste Lelièvre (1796-1869), his technical director in the crystal glassware.
At the beginning, the manufacture was not standing out by its originality because it only produced bottles, glass window and common household glassware. In 1836, the Belgium General Society bought the company and Leopold the 1^st became an important shareholder. From 1839, they installed steam boilers permitting production of mould blown pieces and then pressed. The crystal glassware took part of the Exhibition of Products from the Belgian Industry in 1841 in Brussels to show its technique researches on cutting, its coloration processes or its filigree inclusions.
In 1848, Europe was agitated due to different revolutions and the production slowed. However, innovations kept going with the acid engraving technique or the installation of a gaz oven Boëtius.
The Universal Exhibition of 1878 in Paris created a renewal of the company who travelled all around the world to make discover products and bought the Namur Glasswares to break away from the General Society. In the 1880’s and 1890’s, the crystal glassware continued to modernize itself with electricity lighting, creation of shops and exhibition rooms, a gas factory…
At the beginning of the 20^th century, the glasswork world knew technical and stylistic changes. The company worked with great artists such as Serrurier-Bovy or the Müller brothers.
In the 1930’s, the luxurious glassware was in crisis and the crystal glassware had to find a solution to adapt itself to mechanisation of the glass production. The Luxval line in moulded glass was introduced with a large choice of different services in the Art Deco style with a geometrical and refined script, with period taste colours such as pastels, black and opalescent and theme such as fauna, flora and sport.
After the WWII, style trends and technics quickly evolved and the company didn’t succeed to adapt. It maintained and luxury production but it faltered after all.
The Val-Saint-Lambert crystal glassware went bankrupt in 2013 but had been already bought twice since. Today, more than even, its future remain uncertain.