Phillips Design has a deep-rooted passion for the work of Carlo Scarpa, one of the twentieth century's great poets, whose rhythms, lines and materials — a grammar of space — appeal both as a local response to the architect's birth city, Venice, and a universal language of ordered dynamism.
Carlo Scarpa graduated with a degree in architectural drawing from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1926. In the years that followed, he worked as a teaching assistant for a former professor, ran his own architectural practice in Venice and worked as a freelance artist for M.V.M. Cappellin glassworks. When M.V.M. Cappellin went bankrupt in 1932, Scarpa joined Venini & C. in Murano, where he served as artistic director until 1947. During his tenure at Venini, Scarpa developed a host of new techniques — in particular, mezza filigrano, a bollicine and corroso — that catapulted the centuries-old tradition of Venetian glassblowing to the forefront of modernist design.
circa 1939 Filigrana sommersa glass, mirrored glass, brass. Each: 19 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (48.9 x 42.5 x 3.8 cm) Produced by Venini, Italy. Each hanging bracket impressed with VENINI, MURANO.
Estimate $18,000 - 24,000
Sold for $22,500
Contact Specialist Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale, New York mroddy@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1266