Gino Sarfatti - Wired: Online Auction London Thursday, November 23, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection
    Aguttes, Paris, 7 December 2020, lot 126
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Giuliana Gramigna and Sergio Mazza, Repertorio del Design Italiano 1950-2000, Volume I, Turin, 2003, p. 49 (another example illustrated)
    Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers' Lights (1950 - 1990), Zurich, 2012, pp. 7, 107 (another example illustrated)

  • 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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Floor lamp, model no. 1073/3

incised with the model number '1073' on the underside of the base
aluminium, chrome-plated metal, painted aluminium
(i) 182 x 21.5 x 21.5 cm (71 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
(ii) 197 x 21.5 x 21.5 cm (77 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
(iii) 207 x 21.5 x 21.5 cm (81 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)

Executed in 1956.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,000 

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Wired: Online Auction

23 - 30 November 2023