Gino Sarfatti - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Lake Como, Italy

  • Literature

    Galerie Christine Diegoni, Gino Sarfatti, Paris, 2008, p. 36
    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 297, 409
    Clémence Krzentowski and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers' Lights II, Paris, 2014, p. 135

  • Artist Biography

    Gino Sarfatti

    Italian • 1912 - 1985

    Rising above the devastation of World War II, post-war Italian design reached new heights of productivity and ingenuity, particularly in the realm of lighting. Gino Sarfatti is among the most celebrated lighting designers from this fruitful period. Before founding his company Arteluce in 1939, Sarfatti studied aeronautical engineering. He brought the inventiveness of a self-taught outsider to the field of lighting design, while his mechanical background lent lightness and ingenuity of construction. Poetic underpinnings are also evident in lamps such as model no. 1034 (sometimes referred to as the "Vine" lamp), which features a nearly 8' twisting brass stem graced with nine delicate, articulating white shades like buds on a flower.

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Pair of adjustable wall lights, model no. 210

circa 1955
Painted aluminium, painted brass.
Each: 17.4 x 45.5 x 17.4 cm (6 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. One shade interior with manufacturer's paper label AL/MILANO/ARTELUCE.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £6,250

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Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm