Carlo Scarpa - Casa Fornaroli London Thursday, April 27, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Antonio Fornaroli, Milan
    Thence by descent

  • Literature

    Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Its History, Artists and Techniques, vol. 1, pl. 44

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present model frame was exhibited at the VII Milan Triennale, 1940.

  • 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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Frame

circa 1937
Mezza filigrana glass, glass, brass, plywood.
25 x 19.8 x 15.7 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.), fully extended
Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy. Brass stand impressed VENINI/MURANO.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 

Sold for £2,413

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
+44 20 7901 7944
Antonia.King@phillips.com

Casa Fornaroli

London Auction 27 April 2023