Carlo Scarpa - Design Masters New York Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Florence

  • Literature

    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass, Its history, artists and techniques, Volume 1, Turin, 2007, pl. 44 F

  • Artist Biography

    Carlo Scarpa

    Italian • 1906 - 1978

    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.

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Rare illuminated mirror, model no. 86

1940
Filigrana sommersa glass, mirrored glass, brass.
27 5/8 x 19 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. (70.2 x 50.5 x 8.3 cm)
Produced by Venini, Italy. Both brass fixtures impressed with VENINI MURANO.

Estimate
$16,000 - 24,000 

Sold for $30,000

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale, New York
mroddy@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1266

Design Masters

New York 17 December 2013 6pm