Gino Sarfatti - Design London Wednesday, June 30, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan, commissioned directly from the designer, circa 1956

  • Literature

    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 284-85, 454

  • 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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Two standard lamps, model no. 1073

circa 1956
Painted aluminium, painted iron.
Taller: 211.5 cm (83 1/4 in.) high
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £5,040

Contact Specialist

Antonia King

Head of Sale, Design

Antonia.King@phillips.com

 

Design

London Auction 30 June 2021