Carlo Scarpa - Design & Design Art New York Thursday, December 13, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa, Glass of an Architect , Milan, 1999, pp. 114 and 207

  • 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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Fine “Mezza filigrana” vase

designed 1934
Clear and colored glass, gold leaf.
10 1/4 in. (26 cm) high
Manufactured by Venini, Italy.  Underside acid stamped “Venini/MURANO/MADE IN ITALY.”

Estimate
$24,000 - 26,000 

Design & Design Art

13 Dec 2007, 2pm
New York