Osvaldo Borsani and Lucio Fontana - Design London Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Milan, commissioned directly from the designer
    Thence by descent

  • Literature

    Giuliana Gramigna and Fulvio Irace, Osvaldo Borsani, Rome, 1992, p. 194 for a similar example
    Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino, Il Mobile Italiano degli anni '40 e '50, Bari, 2010, p. 112 for a similar example
    Giampiero Bosoni, Osvaldo Borsani: Architect, Designer, Entrepreneur, Milan, 2018, pp. 284-85, 300-01, 313, 360-61 for similar examples
    Norman Foster, Tommaso Fantoni and Giampiero Bosoni, Osvaldo Borsani, exh. cat., Triennale di Milano, Milan, 2018, pp. 75, 126-27 for similar examples

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Rare wall-mounted console, from Casa Kramer, Milan

circa 1950
Marble, gilded and painted wood.
27 x 120.8 x 40.5 cm (10 5/8 x 47 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.)
Produced by Arredamenti Borsani, Varedo, Italy. Together with a certificate of expertise from the Osvaldo Borsani Archive.

Estimate
£50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠

Sold for £114,300

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London Auction 13 November 2024