Carlo Scarpa - Design London Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass, Its history, artists and techniques, Volume 1, Turin, 2007, pl. 142

  • 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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Rare ceiling light, model no. 5258

1931-1935
Filigrana glass, tubular copper, copper.
128 cm (50 3/8 in.) drop, 45.7 cm (17 7/8 in.) diameter
Produced by Venini, Italy.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £13,750

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Ben Williams
bwilliams@phillips.com
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London 24 September 2014 2pm