Carlo Scarpa - Design London Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private collection, Venice

  • Literature

    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Its history, artists and techniques, Volume 1, Turin, 2007, The Blue Catalogue (appendix), pl. 178A

  • 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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270

Rare standard lamp

1942
Battuto coloured glass, brass, fabric shade.
176.5 cm (69 1/2 in.) high

Estimate
£18,000 - 24,000 Ω

Sold for £40,320

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
Antonia.King@phillips.com

Design

London Auction 9 November 2021