Price On Request Mystic and secretive man, nature inspires artist, **Alexandre Noll,** chooses wood, living matter to the magnetic power to express the torments of his thought. In his eyes, each species has a natural beauty that must be seized. The precious wood, ebony, violet wood, rosewood or rustic wood, walnut, beech, elm and even railway sleepers and other semi beams charred, injured conceal a treasure that will reveal.Abiding memory apparent wood, curves, accidents and veins it will be inspiring forms. Instinctive and sensual, Noll approaches gradually turns around, runs a real pas de deux with the material before completing his creative gesture. Then he shapes, purifies, polishes. The objects presented at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 will be followed by furniture whose realization is a challenge to the laws of the cabinet. Trunks, logs, logs invade the workshop, the artist size in the mass ... the cabinet arises. Recognized as a great creator of artistic furniture, it addresses the sculpture in the 50s shapes and figures appear heralding famous windings: "painful human symbols, a prisoner of its own materiality and whose thinking is opposed this titanic embrace she desperately tends to release " (R. Moutard-Uldry). In perfect harmony with the wood, his favorite material, objects, furniture, figures to sculptures, talent Alexandre Noll is required.Lamp Makassar ebony carved with a gouge. ANoll signed under the base. Foot dimensions: H 26 x 16.5 x W 10.5 cm Dimensions with shade: H 48 x Ø 33 cm