Girard Floor Lamp....WOW  

Odd. This is the first time I...
Odd. This is the first time I have ever seen a work of Girard's that I don't love. This is not an aesthetically successful design.

It IS weird, but it's
100% in line with the collection, right down to the same table base.
I'm not crazy about the chairs and sofa with the straight up arms, but, honestly, it's all beautiful and highly styled, quality furniture.

I get the base. It just does...
I get the base. It just does not work for a lamp!
One of my favorite reuses for a table base is George Nelson's standing globe on a swag.

I don't like it...
I dislike it as well. So much so, in fact, that I doubt it's authenticity.
Whitespike -- what are you referring to as a "standing globe"? Is it just a bubble lamp mounted on the swag base? If there's a pic of this piece, I'd be interested in seeing it (did a quick search and couldn't find anything with that description).

No it's a globe - as in the...
No it's a globe - as in the earth - mounted in a ring (to allow it to twirl) on a swag base. Very rare.

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looks not real...Girards stuff is balanced...

If I were a skeptical person...
I'd think someone took the Girard table base that sold on ebay a couple of months ago for a few hundred dollars and tried to turn it into an objet d'art (now available for the low, low price of $12,500). I wonder if the seller has a picture of this "only known example" in situ at the Textiles and Objects shop.
By the way, the actual lamp looks remarkably similar to a prototype design by George Nelson & Associates so I suppose it could be a collaboration of some sort.

I found the pix at one of the
legit auction websites (Wright, I think).
The base is the basic base, but the whole lamp assembly is not the same as the side table; the 'top' is smaller.
I think it's real, but it IS a bit weird. I posted the pix to show something rare and odd, not necessarily for people to slam it as hideous.

I found this slightly better...
I found this slightly better picture in my Girard library.
I also found a picture of a console done in collaboration with the architect Andrew Blackman for the Herman Miller showroom in New York? It reached $1800 in 2002 at Wright20.
Im my opinion they're both awful and badly proportioned. I've never really cared for the base as well, the four small joint between the legs have always seemed dispositioned and too simple/clumsy to me.
But otherwise I still remain a huge fan of Girard's textiles and colours/patterns.

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I like the console the lamp is bad.