Maison Bagues Paris Biography
Baguès Maison Paris (1840 - ) Created around 1840 by Noël Baguès, this company specialized in the production of liturgical bronzes. In 1880 his son, Eugène Baguès, developed the company by making lighting bronzes, a development favored by the widespread use of electricity. Baguès moves to the Marais. Between the two wars, Victor and Robert Baguès expanded their collection of bronze lamps, taking inspiration from period models. These models are reproduced to perfection. Baguès, whose headquarters were then located in a building on rue de La Boétie, soon became well known abroad. Branches have been opened in New York, London, Brussels, Rome and Cairo. The world crisis and a large unpaid debt to an American state were at the origin of the difficulties experienced by Baguès at that time: Baguès moved to Avenue Raymond Poincaré. In 1957, financial managers had no confidence in the future and decided to stop investing in Baguès. Jean-Pierre Baguès, son of Victor Baguès, purchases the majority of the shares of the company that bears his name on credit, returns the company to its family character, renews the collection and creates new products.
