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In 1955, Mouille joined both the Société des Artistes Décorateurs
and the Société nationale des beaux-arts (French National
Society of Fine Arts). That same year, he received the Charles
Plumet Prize for his work, as well as an honorary certificate
at the World’s Fair in Brussels in 1958. At the end of the 1950s,
Mouille began creating lights with a more pronounced archi-
tectural influence. In the years that followed, he was responsible for
designing the lights installed at the university residence in Antony
(Paris), schools in Strasbourg and Marseille, and the cathedral of
Bizerte (Tunisia). The end of the decade also saw the advent of
the neon light inspire Mouille to develop a series of floor lights.
These designs—which comprise the “Collonnes” collection and
include some of Mouille’s most famous later works—were then
presented for the first time at an interior architecture exhibition
in 1962.
In 1961, Mouille founded the Société de Création de Modèles to
provide young, unconventional light designers with an official
platform. He then ended his own design activities in 1963 to focus
fully on teaching from that point onward. Mouille displayed
his lights and jewelry at many exhibitions, and he received an
honorary award from the city of Paris for his life’s work as an
artist in metallurgy and design in 1976. Serge Mouille died on the
night of December 24, 1988.
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BIOGRAPHY 1955–1988
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