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Gino Sarfatti
Rare ceiling light
- Estimate
- £18,000 - 24,000Ω
£23,940
Lot Details
Painted aluminium, brass, brass-plated steel.
1940s
130 x 236 x 63.5 cm (51 1/8 x 92 7/8 x 25 in.)
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. Interior of each shade with manufacturer's label printed AL/MILANO.
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Provenance
Gino Sarfatti
Italian | B. 1912 D. 1985Rising above the devastation of World War II, post-war Italian design reached new heights of productivity and ingenuity, particularly in the realm of lighting. Gino Sarfatti is among the most celebrated lighting designers from this fruitful period. Before founding his company Arteluce in 1939, Sarfatti studied aeronautical engineering. He brought the inventiveness of a self-taught outsider to the field of lighting design, while his mechanical background lent lightness and ingenuity of construction. Poetic underpinnings are also evident in lamps such as model no. 1034 (sometimes referred to as the "Vine" lamp), which features a nearly 8' twisting brass stem graced with nine delicate, articulating white shades like buds on a flower.
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