Carlo Scarpa - Design London Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan

  • Literature

    'Murano: oggi fatto d'arte', Domus, no. 12, December 1928, p. 59 for a similar example
    Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego, eds., The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925-1931, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2018, pp. 72, 74, 94 for similar examples

  • 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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Miniature vase

circa 1926
Glass, coloured glass.
9 cm (3 1/2 in.) high, 8 cm (3 1/8 in.) diameter
Manufactured by M.V.M. Cappellin, Murano, Italy. Underside acid-etched MVM/Cappellin/Murano.

Estimate
£1,000 - 2,000 

Sold for £1,270

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London Auction 31 October 2023