Gino Sarfatti Pair of adjustable wall lights, model no. 210 circa 1955 Painted aluminium, painted brass. Each: 17.4 x 45.5 x 17.4 cm (6 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. One shade interior with manufacturer's paper label AL/MILANO/ARTELUCE.
Provenance Private collection, Lake Como, Italy Literature Galerie Christine Diegoni, Gino Sarfatti Paris, 2008, p. 36 Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 297, 409 Clémence Krzentowski and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers' Lights II, Paris, 2014, p. 135 Artist Bio Gino Sarfatti Italian • 1912 - 1985 Rising above the devastation of World War II, post-war Italian design reached new heights of productivity and ingenuity, particularly in the realm of lighting. Gino Sarfatti is among the most celebrated lighting designers from this fruitful period. Before founding his company Arteluce in 1939, Sarfatti studied aeronautical engineering. He brought the inventiveness of a self-taught outsider to the field of lighting design, while his mechanical background lent lightness and ingenuity of construction. Poetic underpinnings are also evident in lamps such as model no. 1034 (sometimes referred to as the "Vine" lamp), which features a nearly 8' twisting brass stem graced with nine delicate, articulating white shades like buds on a flower. View More Works
Gino Sarfatti Pair of adjustable wall lights, model no. 210 circa 1955 Painted aluminium, painted brass. Each: 17.4 x 45.5 x 17.4 cm (6 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Arteluce, Milan, Italy. One shade interior with manufacturer's paper label AL/MILANO/ARTELUCE.
Provenance Private collection, Lake Como, Italy Literature Galerie Christine Diegoni, Gino Sarfatti Paris, 2008, p. 36 Marco Romanelli and Sandra Severi, Gino Sarfatti selected works 1938-1973, Milan, 2012, pp. 297, 409 Clémence Krzentowski and Didier Krzentowski, eds., The Complete Designers' Lights II, Paris, 2014, p. 135 Artist Bio Gino Sarfatti Italian • 1912 - 1985 Rising above the devastation of World War II, post-war Italian design reached new heights of productivity and ingenuity, particularly in the realm of lighting. Gino Sarfatti is among the most celebrated lighting designers from this fruitful period. Before founding his company Arteluce in 1939, Sarfatti studied aeronautical engineering. He brought the inventiveness of a self-taught outsider to the field of lighting design, while his mechanical background lent lightness and ingenuity of construction. Poetic underpinnings are also evident in lamps such as model no. 1034 (sometimes referred to as the "Vine" lamp), which features a nearly 8' twisting brass stem graced with nine delicate, articulating white shades like buds on a flower. View More Works
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