Carlo Scarpa - Design London Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Helmut Ricke and Eva Schmitt, Italian Glass Murano, Milan 1930-1970, Munich, 1997, p. 82, fig. 49
    Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa: Glass of an Architect, Milan, 1999, pp. 186-87, 224 for similar examples
    Marino Barovier, ed., Venetian glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, NewYork, 2000, p. 107, fig. 76 for a similar example

  • 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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Seashell-shaped 'iridato' dish

circa 1942
Clear glass with pink violet inner casing.
4 x 23 x 20 cm (1 5/8 x 9 x 7 7/8 in)
Manufactured by Venini, Italy. Underside acid-etched with ‘venini/murano/MADE IN/ITALY'.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠

Sold for £3,500

Design

27 September 2012
London