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Rare Fontana Arte wall light designed by Max Ingrand in the 1950s, featuring a chiseled blue-green glass centerpiece framed by two molded frosted glass shades. Nickel plated brass hardware is fitted with four candelabra sockets. This is a single not a pair.
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This Near Fine (FN) edition of Art Glass from Murano (Glas-Kunst aus Murano) 1910-1970, is a classic text covering Murano glass between 1910 and 1970 by glass expert Marc Heiremans. In this book Heiremans has chosen 290 masterpieces from the archives at Murano, as well as museum and private collections. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers (1993). English, hardcover, 376 pp. with 425 illustrations.
$100 USD.
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Glazed majolica vide-poche with incised decoration and abstract design. There is a small hole by which this can be hung on the wall as decoration.
Ceramist Jacques Blin, was born in, Pierrefonds France in 1920. His university degree was in the aeronautics and automotive field. Initially he taught industrial drawing and worked as an engineer. But by 1949 he abandoned his aeronautics and began to make jewelry and lamps from his home.
He explored ceramics and learned in studios in Paris, Auxon and Indre-et-Loire, evolving into a prominent maker of ceramics.
In 1953 he began exhibiting at Salon des Ateliers d’Art and in 1955 he met the artist Jean Rustin, whose influence helped him refine a distinctive style which is characterized by incised pictographs showing figures and plants. His glazes are cloudy and have rocky effects from his application of Metallic.
In the 1960s he exhibited his work at the Salon des artists Décorateurs and Salon des Tuileries and the Prague Exposition Internationale de la Céramique Contemporaine, where he won the gold medal in 1962. In 1966 he won the silver medal at the Société des Artistes Français. He chaired the Chamber of Ceramists and Art Workshops of France from 1971 to 1991. Jacques Blin died in 1995.
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As new (mint condition in shrink-wrap) edition of S.A.L.I.R. Studio Ars et Labor Industrie Riunite by Marc Heiremans, Contemporary Glass-Decorating on Murano 1923-1993. Published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers (January 25, 2024), hardcover, 272 pp.
$125 USD.
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Ceramic bowl with incised pattern of playful fish swimming, by Jacques Pouchain/ L’Atelier Dieulefit. Aqua glaze with gray details.
Jacques Pouchain (1927-2015) trained as an architect in Paris before turning to painting in 1951 and later settling in Dieulefit, in the Drôme. While working at the Coursange faience workshop in nearby Poet-Laval, he developed his ceramic practice, bringing a painter’s eye to the medium and updating its forms and decoration. In 1958, he opened his own studio in Dieulefit, where he first produced functional ceramics with figurative imagery, then moved toward more stylized and abstract designs. Influenced by Nicolas de Staël, his painting gradually shifted toward abstraction, while his ceramics explored themes of femininity and fertility, resulting in work that feels both joyful and shaped by an architectural sensibility.
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Bertil Vallien: 9 Rooms, from the 13th International architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Hardcover, color, 175 pp., with no dust jacket (as issued). This is a First Printing of the 1st Edition, Published in Venice, Italy: Berengo Studio / Marsilio Editori, 2012.
Good (G) condition with a dent, a few interior dents on the first three pages, otherwise pristine interior.
$75 USD.
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Rare Fontana Arte Ceiling Light circa 1958. I have not yet seen this light in any of the Fontana Arte catalogs. However it appeared in an advertisement for Fontana Arte in the magazine Rivista Dell’arredamento vol. #48 December 1958. The last two images show the ad and the cover of the magazine in which it was shown.
Etched glass, brass, painted aluminum.
Documented to the periodical
Rivista dell’Arredamento # 48 1958 as seen in original advertisement.
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Venini. Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986 offers an in-depth account of the glassworks founded by trained attorney Paolo Venini in 1921.The company was owned by the family until 1986, when it was sold. The catalogue contains 250 items produced over six decades. Editor Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana traces the history of Venini through successive art directors: Napoleone Martinuzzi, Carlo Scarpa, Paolo Venini, Tomaso Buzzi, Fulvio Bianconi, and Ludovico Diaz de Santillana. This edition is new in it’s original shrink-wrap. As New. First Edition. English ISBN: 88-8118-651-9
$250.00 USD
We also have a copy of this book in used condition.
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Offered are four Paul McCobb Chairs and a Brass Mounted Game Table with Drawer, which have lived together since originally bought. The table is labeled in the drawer, H. Sacks Connoisseur Collection Brookline Mass. Sold together or separately as a set of four chairs and game table. They are in original condition and were purchased directly from a Park Avenue estate. The chair seats are covered in the original velvet period fabric by Jack Lenor Larsen. The table has a stain on the top and will need the top to be refinished.
Sacks & Sons was a furniture company based in Brookline and Boston, Massachusetts, operating between the 1940s and 1980s. They produced both reproductions of fine eighteenth- and nineteenth-century furniture as well as contemporary styles. H. Sacks & Sons had a strong professional relationship with furniture designer Paul McCobb, who designed a furniture line for H. Sacks & Sons called the Connoisseur Collection sold exclusively in their stores. The company had a factory located in Brookline up until 1973, when they moved to a new location in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Circa Fifties Glass from Europe & America by Leslie Piña in Near Fine (FN) condition. This first edition hardcover book has 216 pp. and 505 photos.
$30 USD
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Paul Evans for Directional Table Lamp, Cityscape Series. Graphic patchwork of chrome and brass.
The Cityscape series by Paul Evans for Directional is a result of the company seeking to produce a more craftsman like product. It was a huge success for Directional. The series offered Evans an opportunity to reach a wider audience. In 1971 Directional introduced Evans’ streamlined brass and chrome Cityscape I series, with it’s smooth reflective surfaces notably different from the crusty, painted, textured surfaces of his sculpted steel works from the 60’s. In the Cityscape series, just as he disrupted the surfaces of his earlier rough surfaced pieces, he continued but with a lighter touch in the Cityscape series. Lighting and furniture with polished and brushed squares, triangles and rectangles in various patterns and materials achieved this same disruption.
Each piece from the Cityscape line is handcrafted and each piece of patchwork is fitted precisely. This made the resulting lamps, tables etc. quite laborious to produce and unique both in overall dimensions and design patterns.
As with many successful designs from the mid-century, copy cat versions abound in the market. Cheaply made copies, have precut pieces of metal, set patterns of arrangement and overall poor quality. This lamp is genuine. The base measures 18 inches high and the height to the top of the harp is 30 inches. Also available is a Paul Evans Cityscape coffee table model PE-208 from the same Park Avenue estate. Both in excellent untouched condition.
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Martin Freyer for Rosenthal, Plissée Garlic & Onion Vase. Made of Bisque Porcelain.