Iconic French designer Mathieu Mategot’s Satellite design is regarded as one of the most striking pieces of modernist sculpture and design. A timeless lighting solution, the Satellite Outdoor Floor Lamp features the same characterful, contemporary design as the original, some 70 years on from its creation.
Featuring a unique ovoid shape, the shade is expertly crafted from a curved sheet of perforated stainless steel. Finished with an aluminium ‘hat’, the lamp casts light downwards, to create an inviting ambience within your outdoor space. The Satellite Outdoor Floor Lamp is ideally placed within a covered patio, veranda or terrace, to make the most of those warm summer evenings, even once the sun has set.
Mathieu Mategot was born in Hungary in 1910. After his studies at the school of fine arts and architecture in Budapest, he began to create sets for the National Theatre. He settled in France in 1931, where he took up various professions, creating sets for the Folies Bergeres, window dresser for the Lafayette Galleries, fashion designer for dressmaking firms in Paris.
The second world war interrupted his activity. A volunteer in the French army, he was taken prisoner and he was free in 1944. After his return, he set up a workshop for hand crafted furniture in Paris. He used materials such as metal, rattan, glass, Formica, and perforated sheet metal in particular, to design chairs, armchairs, tables, serving tables, sideboards, desks and useful articles.
Mathieu Mategot died in February 2001 at Angers, France.
