TORCH-CUT IRON FLOOR LAMP WITH GLASS TABLE BY RICHARD BARR FOR LAUREL

A brutalist torch cut and welded weathered iron and glass floor lamp/table in the form of an abstract metal sculpture designed in the 1960s by Richard Barr for the Laurel Lamp Mfg. Co. of Newark, NJ.LAUREL LAMP MANUFACTURING CO. (1946-1992). of Newark, NJ, was incorporated as a Domestic Business in the State of New York on May 2, 1946, by Max Weiss and his sons Harold and Murray Weiss. Max was born on December 9, 1891, in Austria and began his career as a tinsmith working on carriage lamps. In 1908, he immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island.In 1913, Max and an uncle formed "Habacht and Weiss," a lighting company that manufactured gaslights and lanterns, sold from a small shop in New York City and via pushcarts. Recognizing the permanence of the electrical revolution early on, Max pivoted to selling portable electrical lamps, renaming the company the Sunset Lamp Company.In 1924, the Sunset Lamp Company merged with the Mutual Lamp Manufacturing Company. This new firm, the M