Carlo Scarpa - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Milan, 2000, p. 242, pl. 43
    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Its history, artists and techniques, Volume 1, Turin, 2007, pl. 43

  • 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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Mirror, model no. 30

circa 1937
Battuto glass, mirrored glass, brass.
40.9 x 36.8 x 8.6 cm (16 1/8 x 14 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Manufactured by Venini, Murano, Italy. Brass hanger impressed with VENINI/MURANO and four corner fixtures impressed 17, 18, 19 and 20 respectively.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £20,000

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
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New York
+44 20 7318 4027

Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm