Carlo Scarpa - Saturday @ Phillips New York Saturday, June 2, 2007 | Phillips

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  • 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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Pair of sconces

ca. 1960
Colored and clear textured glass, painted metal, brass. Manufactured by Venini, Italy.
Each: 23 x 20 1/2 x 10 in. (58.4 x 52.1 x 25.4 cm)

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $2,640

Saturday @ Phillips

2 June 2007, 10am & 2pm
New York