Carlo Scarpa - Design Day Sale London Wednesday, April 27, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, Turin

  • Literature

    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Milan, 2000, p. 259, pl. 156
    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass, Catalogue 1921-2007, Volume 2, Turin, 2007, pl. 156

  • Artist Biography

    Carlo Scarpa

    Italian • 1906 - 1978

    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.

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Chandelier, model no. 207

1931-1935
Chromium-plated brass, filigrana glass.
123.2 x 117 x 24 cm (48 1/2 x 46 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £8,750

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Madalena Horta e Costa
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Design Day Sale

London Auction 28 April 2016