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Carlo Scarpa

Italian • 1906-1978

Biography

Phillips Design has a deep-rooted passion for the work of Carlo Scarpa, one of the twentieth century's great poets, whose rhythms, lines and materials — a grammar of space — appeal both as a local response to the architect's birth city, Venice, and a universal language of ordered dynamism.

Carlo Scarpa graduated with a degree in architectural drawing from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1926. In the years that followed, he worked as a teaching assistant for a former professor, ran his own architectural practice in Venice and worked as a freelance artist for M.V.M. Cappellin glassworks. When M.V.M. Cappellin went bankrupt in 1932, Scarpa joined Venini & C. in Murano, where he served as artistic director until 1947. During his tenure at Venini, Scarpa developed a host of new techniques — in particular, mezza filigrano, a bollicine and corroso — that catapulted the centuries-old tradition of Venetian glassblowing to the forefront of modernist design.

Insights

The leading seller of Scarpa's work, Phillips is one of only two auction houses to have sold works by Scarpa in excess of $100,000 since 2007, including four of the top five world auction records as of August 2016.

"Scarpa's was an aquatic sensibility, saturated by Venice." –Michael Cadwell

Past Lots

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Carlo Scarpa
Rare ceiling light, model no. 214A
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $20,320
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Carlo Scarpa
Mirror, model no. 30
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $24,130
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Carlo Scarpa
Monumental vase, from the 'Cinesi' series
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
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Carlo Scarpa
Ceiling light, model no. 5258
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £4,445
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136
Carlo Scarpa
Chandelier, model no. 5323 A6
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
Sold for £20,955
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Carlo Scarpa
Pair of wall lights, model no. 442
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £20,955
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Carlo Scarpa
Pair of rare ceiling lights, model no. 5258
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,795
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Carlo Scarpa
Large vase, model no. 4323
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,350
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Carlo Scarpa
Pair of ceiling lights
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,700
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89
Carlo Scarpa
Miniature vase
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000
Sold for £1,270
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Carlo Scarpa
Plate
Estimate £800 - 1,200
Sold for £1,905
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Carlo Scarpa
Two small vessels, model nos. 3552 and 3635
Estimate £300 - 500
Sold for £1,397
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Carlo Scarpa
Frame
Estimate £1,000 - 1,500
Sold for £2,413
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Carlo Scarpa
Ceiling light, model no. 5417
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £20,320
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Carlo Scarpa
Large ceiling light, model no. 5258
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £7,620
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136
Carlo Scarpa
Rare floor lamp, model no. 527
Estimate £18,000 - 24,000
Sold for £46,990
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Carlo Scarpa
Floor lamp, model no. 518
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
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Carlo Scarpa
Ceiling light, model no. 5294
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $34,020
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116
Carlo Scarpa
Vase
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £11,970
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125
Carlo Scarpa
Ceiling light, model no. 5432
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
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137
Carlo Scarpa
Ceiling light, model no. 5417
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £15,120
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Carlo Scarpa
Unique side table
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £73,080
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Carlo Scarpa
Rare table mirror, model no. 40
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
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Carlo Scarpa
"Corroso" vase, model no. 4101
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $16,380
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