Gino Sarfatti - Design London Thursday, October 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Monticelli Terme, Parma

  • Literature

    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 114, 406

  • 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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Extendable wall light, model no. 194n

circa 1950
Painted aluminium, chromium-plated brass, painted steel.
100 x 39.6 x 116 cm (39 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 45 5/8 in.) fully extended
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan Italy.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for £5,000

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Antonia King
Interim Head of Sale
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Design

London Auction 17 October 2019