Carlo Scarpa - Design London Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa: Glass of an Architect, Milan, 1999, p. 249, fig. 9

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present model was exhibited at the XVIII Exhibition at the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, 1927.

  • 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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Large chandelier

circa 1927
Coloured glass, metal, tubular metal.
142 cm (55 7/8 in.) drop, 127 cm (50 in.) diameter
Manufactured by MVM Cappellin & Co., Murano, Italy. Metal fixture impressed with 59/BREVETTATO.

Estimate
£18,000 - 24,000 

Sold for £22,500

Contact Specialist
Madalena Horta e Costa
Head of Sale
+44 20 7318 4019

Design

London Auction 1 October 2015