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

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Italy

  • Literature

    'RIGATI INCISI1941', Venini: Catologo Blu, Murano, pl. 29, model no. 3298
    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Milan, 2000, p. 264, pl. 183, for the twelve-armed example model no. 5325 A 12

  • 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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Rare six-armed chandelier, model no. 5325 A 6

circa 1941
Glass, tubular brass, brass.
117 cm (46 1/8 in) high, 77 cm (30 3/8 in) wide
Manufactured by Venini, Italy.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £18,750

Design

27 September 2012
London