Gino Sarfatti - Design New York Tuesday, June 6, 2017 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Roberto Aloi, L'arredamento moderno: Quarta serie, Milan, 1949, fig. 200
    Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti: Selected Works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 18, 446
    Gino Sarfatti: Designing Light, exh. cat., Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2012, p. 76

  • 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. 1034

1945-1951
Brass, painted aluminum, marble.
83 in. (210.8 cm) high
Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. Base stamped ARTELUCE/MADE IN ITALY. Interior of one shade with decal label printed AL/MILANO/ARTELUCE.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $18,750

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New York Auction 6 June 2017