Italian Masterworks 
13 December 2012
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Max Ingrand

Rare floor lamp

Fontana Arte
Italy, 1955
colored crystal, brass, milk glass 76 h × 12 w × 8 d in (193 × 30 × 20 cm)
estimate: $30,000–40,000
result: $67,300
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provenance: Collection of Loris Manna, Milan
literature: Il Design Italiano Degli Anni '50, Branzi and De Lucchi, pg. 231 Domus, No. 316, March 1956, pg. 20 illustrates form from this series Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Falconi, pg. 213 illustrates form from this series
Gio Ponti and his vision served as the inspiration for the important collection of Loris Manna, author of Gio Ponti, The Majolica. For an introduction to the collection, read One Collection, One History by Loris Manna.

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A Masterpiece of Material and Form

Max Ingrand's floor lamp

This rare floor lamp by Max Ingrand was produced early in his tenure, 1954-1967, as design director for Fontana Arte. Created in 1955, this floor lamp exhibits characteristics that would become signature elements of Ingrand’s designs. It looks outside of Italy to styles popular in France, while paying tribute to Fontana Arte’s glorious past under the direction of Pietro Chiesa and Gio Ponti.

A real masterpiece of design and craftsmanship, this extraordinary floor lamp features a skillful combination of glass and metalwork. The base features layered milk glass beveled over brass, the brass flows up in three clusters of vine-like uprights that culminate in leaf-like glass diffusers in Ingrand’s impressionistic color palette. This work along with a wall light and a chandelier, were some of Ingrand’s earliest experimental designs and very few examples were produced.


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