Gino Sarfatti - Design New York Thursday, June 9, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Turin

  • Literature

    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 189-90, 468
    Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers' Lights II, 35 Years of Collecting, Paris, 2014, p. 68

  • Artist Biography

    Gino Sarfatti

    Italian • 1912 - 1985

    Rising 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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Ceiling light, model no. 2065 GF

circa 1950
Opaline methacrylate, painted brass.
21 in. (53.3 cm) diameter, variable drop
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. Inside of shade with manufacturer's printed label AL/MILANO/ARTELUCE.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $21,250

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New York Auction 9 June 2016