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New York Auction 6 June 2017

  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan

  • 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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Carlo Scarpa

Set of six wall lights

circa 1940
Clear bugnato glass, brass.
Each: 12 5/8 x 8 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (32.1 x 21 x 32.1 cm)
Manufactured by Venini & C., Murano, Italy. Five wall fixtures impressed 5, 11, 15, 18 and 20 respectively.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $10,000

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Design

New York Auction 6 June 2017