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

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  • 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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Set of four, three-armed wall lights

circa 1935
Tubular glass, glass, metal.
Each: 44.5 x 68.3 x 39.5 cm (17 1/2 x 26 7/8 x 15 1/2 in)
Produced by Venini, Italy (4).

Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £67,250

Design

27 September 2012
London