Carlo Scarpa - Casa Fornaroli London Thursday, April 27, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Mariella Fornaroli, Milan
    Thence by descent

  • Literature

    'I tipi nei vetri d'arte a Venezia', Domus, no. 83, November 1934, p. 25
    Domus, no. 361, December 1959, p. 40
    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Its History, Artists and Techniques, Volume 1, Turin, 2007, p. 87
    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Catalogue 1921-2007, Volume 2, Turin, 2007, pl. 66

  • 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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Plate

designed circa 1934, produced 1989
Mezza filigrana glass.
33.5 cm (13 1/4 in.) diameter
Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy. Underside incised venini 89.

Estimate
£800 - 1,200 

Sold for £1,905

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
+44 20 7901 7944
Antonia.King@phillips.com

Casa Fornaroli

London Auction 27 April 2023