Carlo Scarpa - Design London Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Acquired by the present owner in Turin

  • Exhibited

    'Venini: Luce 1921-1985', Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 18 September 2022–8 January 2023, for one light

  • Literature

    Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego, Venini: Luce 1921-1985, exh. cat., Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2022, one light illustrated p. 496

  • 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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Pair of ceiling lights

circa 1934
Iridescent corroso glass, coloured cordonato glass, coloured glass, brass.
Each: 64.5 cm (25 3/8 in.) drop
Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £12,700

Contact Specialist

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

 

Design

London Auction 31 October 2023