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Lino Sabattini

Cardinale vase

Christofle
Italy / France, c. 1957
silver plate 13¾ h × 2¼ w in (35 × 6 cm)
estimate: $500–700
result: $762
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Impressed manufacturer's mark to underside ‘Christofle France’. Sold with original box.
literature: Design 1935-1965, Eidelberg, pg. 166

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I approach my material on tip-toe so as to avoid brusquely awakening it from its cosmic lethargy [...] with a technique also made up of respect and love of its nature. I do "with it" what it seems to want me to do with it. This is how "our things" come into being. Yes, indeed, I said "our." Because they are only half mine. The other half belongs to the nature of the material with which I have now established a correspondence of feelings of affection.

Lino Sabattini

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