Gino Sarfatti - Design London Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Casati Gallery, Chicago
    Private collection, Chicago
    Sotheby's, New York, 'A Mid-Century Eye: The Collection of Colleen Sullivan', 21 September 2011, lot 1
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: Selected Works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 142, 145, 465 for a similar example

  • 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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Rare ceiling light

circa 1948
Brass, painted aluminium.
54 cm (21 1/4 in.) drop, 83 cm (32 5/8 in.) diameter
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy.

Estimate
£18,000 - 24,000 

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Antonia King
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Design

London Auction 2 May 2024