Pietro Chiesa (1892-1948)
Large mirror with wave grinding and engravings on the frame.
Fontana Arte manufacture ca.1930s-40s.
Mirror with double profile shaped brass frame with ball spacers.
Italian manufacture ca. 1950.
Elegant pair of mirrors in reeded wood with ground mirror applied on ebonized wooden spacers and held by small brass glass holders.
Italian manufacture, 1950s approx.
Pier Luigi Colli(1895 - 1968)
Large "Margherita" mirror with flower-shaped petals carved in cherry, ground and shaped powder-colored glass and central mirror.
Colli Turin Manufacture, ca. 1940.
Pair of mirrors with shaped brass frame.
Italian manufacture, 1950s.
Giuseppe Raimondi
Pair of elegant sunray mirrors in cut crystal and mirror.
Crystal Art production ca. 1960.
Cristal Art was a Turin-based company founded in 1944 by Giuseppe and Giovanni Donna, with designer Giuseppe Raimondi as its artistic director. The company's flagship sector was the production of mirrors and crystal furniture. It participated in the main exhibitions starting in 1949 (Salone del Mobile di Milano, Salone di Parigi) and soon became one of the most established companies producing crystal accessories together with Fontana Arte in Milan, Sant'Ambrogio & De Berti and Brusotti.
The company closed in 1996.
Pietro Chiesa 1892-1970
Elegant mirror with shaped frame in cut and engraved glass, small glass decorations.
Prod. Fontana Arte 1940ca.
In 1932 he was called by Gio Ponti to share the artistic direction of the newborn and then famous FontanaArte. "No one more than him could promote more daring modernity in glassmaking technique" as Ponti wrote. He designed over a thousand different objects, furniture, tables, lamps, stained glass windows, art objects. Many of these pieces have entered the history of design.
Large mirror of beautiful workmanship with brass frame and wave motif.
Italian manufacture 1950ca.
Dressmaker's mirror with wooden frame and brass handles. 3 grinded mirrors and shaped wooden base.
Italian manufacture ca. 1930.
Mirror with important polychrome porcelain frame with hand-painted flower and cherub decorations.
Capodimonte Manufacture, Naples, 1950 ca.
Large backlit mirror in magenta colored tempered glass.
Design Nanda Vigo
Manufactur Glass Italia, 2008. now out of production.
This version is a never modified prototype, accompanied by a certificate from the Nanda Vigo archive, Glass Italia is also the publisher of the Sottsass mirror.
Shaped mirror with retro-engraved decoration.
Italian manufacture around 1940s.
Powder pink mirror with burin engraved motif.
Italian manufacture from the 1940s
Splendid mirror with lacquered wood base and large oval mirror with glass top.
Attr. William Ulrich, 1940 ca.
Small mirror engraved with hunting scenes.
Italian manufacture, ca. 1930.
Large shaped mirror.
Italian manufacture, ca. 1940.
Shaped brass mirror.
Italian manufacture, ca. 1960.
Table mirror with parchment frame.
Italian manufacture,1940's.
Mirror with ash frame.
Italian manufacture around 1940.
Giovanni Gariboldi (1908 -1971)
Large mirror with gilded wooden frame.
Italian manufacture, 1940's
Modernist mirror with shaped wooden frame.
Italian manufacture, 1940s.
Mirror with brass frame and ribbon motif.
ABV Borsani Varedo 1950s.
Large tilting mirror with original mercury mirror, wooden structure with neoclassical style tympanum and half columns with bronze details.
Italian manufacture, central Italy, period of transition between the Neoclassical and the Empire. 1790s/1800
Mirror with curved metal mesh frame with two wall lights of the same workmanship with satin glass.
Italy 1950s.
Small Rococò carved and gilded leaf mirror with original silvered mirror.
The measurements of this frame are particularly unusual and contained for its time.
North Italy, Piedmont, around 1750.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979)
Tempera on canvas Untitled (The Gauls) 1949
signature and date on the front
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by links with the historical avant-garde saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Tempera on canvas "The bullfight at Cheval" 1949
Italian painter very active abroad, recognized by the name of Orazì and member of the Ecole de Paris. His career characterized by the link with the historical avant-gardes saw him exhibit at the Venice Art Biennale in '34 and '36 and in various Milanese galleries.
Orazio Orazi (1906-1979) T
empera on canvas Untitled (The Cat) 1949
Tempera on canvas Untitled
(The Fountain) 1949
Franco Francini
Volvoli, oil on canvas, 1974.
Green leaves, oil on canvas, 1978.
Noel Quintavalle (Ferrara 1893 - Alassio 1977)
Three young woman having a bath at the river.
Oil painting on panel, signed and dated 1958.
Three soldiers, oil painting, Italy late XVI century
Alfonso Bini
Pinocchio head in birch wood carved and sculpted with a mechanism that allows to open a mouth with teeth, designed to be used as a nutcracker.
Italian manufacture ca.1970s.
The Filippi family business workshops were founded in Florence in 1887, making wooden milliners' models and hat molds. Taken over by Alfonso Bini in 1945, he, along with designer Mario Mariotti, realized there was an opportunity to transform hat molds into avant-garde sculptures in their own right.
Two heads in turned and carved pine wood.
French manufacture, 1930s.
Collection of nine horses made of different materials, painted wood, carved wood, brass, metal, copper and leather.
Indian manufacture, 20th century.
"Homage to Giorgio Morandi"
Painted bronze casting on wooden base.
Fabrizio Pelanda, 1950's
3 painted plaster advertising figures.
Excellent state of original conservation.
Christian Dior, 1930s-50s.
Pair of lacquered and gilded wood angels holding a cornucopia with a gilt metal crown.
Central Italy, Baroque period, first half of the 17th century.
Two angels made of carved Carrara marble,.
Florence, Italy 1830's.
Plaster cast of 1950s advertisement.
Pair of blown glass vases with colored glass applications.
Manufacturing ca. 1980.
Two elegant blown glass cups with handles.
Murano, Venice, 1940s.
Rare painted and glazed ceramic. "The Bottom of the Sea"
UC.Ancora manufacturing, Venice 1950s.
Signed on the bottom.
3 painted plaster advertising figures in excellent original condition.
Christian Dior, 1960s.
Pair of rare glazed ceramic bookends.
Manufactured in Perugia, Italy 1930s.
Hand-painted ceramic vase.
Rometti Umbertide ceramics 1928/30
Design by Corrado Cagli and Dante Baldelli, signature engraved under the base.
Bruno Gambone (Vietri sul mare 1936)
Set of ceramic bottle vases.
Vietri manufacture around 1970.
Rometti pottery
Round vase with leaves decoration on a coral colored background. Umbertide manufacture, 1930's.
Vase with golden spinning. Umbertide manufacture around 1940.
Vase finished in majolica with geometric decoration. Umbertide manufacture 1940's.
Painted and glazed ceramic vase with long white ceramic stem.
Signed on bottom, "Alfa manufacture made in Italy", 1950s.
Rometti pottery Blue vase with decoration and large threaded opening. Umbertide manufacture 1940's
Rometti
Rare and beautiful vase with period style decoration. Umbertide manufacture, 1950's
Vase decorated with flowers. Umbertide manufacture, around 1930.
Painted and glazed ceramic.
Signed on bottom, Giovanni Scipioni, 1960s.
Spiked vase with golden rope decoration. Umbertide manufacture, around 1950.
Large ceramic vase with gold spinning. Umbertide manufacture 1950's.
Large vase with gilt spinning. Umbertide manufacture 1950's.
Vase with gold luster decoration. Umbertide manufacture, around 1950.
Large ceramic vase with white spinning. Umbertide manufacture 1950's.
Paolo Crepax
2 Murano glass vases in shades of blue and gray, one of which with a hand-ground base. Both made by the famous master glassmaker.
Murano manufacture around 1980.
Pair of large vases in colored burnished glass.
Italian manufacture, Murano
Pair of ceramic hands which inspired Gio Ponti for his famous hands later produced by Richard Ginori.
Rosenthal manufacture, 1920s/30s.
Decorated ceramic vase.
Inge Lise Koefoed for Royal Copenhagen, 1960s.
Rare centerpiece plate in painted ceramic.
San Polo Venice, 1950s.
Venini
Blown glass vase.
Venini Murano manufacture, around 1930.
Colored ceramic vase with braided rope motif at the base.
France, 1930s.
Vittorio Zechin
Goblet in aqua green blown glass.
Cappellin Manufacture, Murano 1926.
Acid signature under the base.
Giovanni Gariboldi
Rare colored ceramic vase with love knot.
Richard Ginori manufacture, 1940s.
Vase in turned and colored ceramic.
France 1930ca.
Colored ceramic vase.
Prod. Galvani, Pordenone, Italy 1960s.
Pair of colored ceramic vases.
France 1960s.
Salviati Venezia, lattimo glass vase in a light pink color with gold leaf powder.
Salviati & C, Murano 1970s.
In 1859, the Vicenza lawyer Antonio Salviati began his glass business by founding Salviati & C. It combines the production of mosaics and enamels with that of blown glass, becoming an example of international excellence.
Gio Ponti, small ceramic vase.
Prod. Richard Ginori, 1930s.
Seguso Murano, small blown glass vase.
Signed Seguso Murano.
Seguso Vetri d'Arte was born in Murano in 1375 as one of the oldest Venetian glass factories. The Seguso family today boasts the 23rd generation of glass masters.
De Majo Murano, small blown glass vase model 9731.
Signed De Majo Murano 1989.
Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, blown glass bottle with incalmo collar.
Prod. Venini, 1970s.
Vittorio Zecchin, Veronese vase in lilac-colored blown glass, Prod. Venini, Murano 1970s.
The vase takes its name from the canvas of "The Annunciation of the Virgin" by Paolo Veronese. The complex and rounded shape defies gravity, as in the painting that originally houses it.
Paolo Venini, very light blown glass, model 4740.
Signed, Venini 1959.
Painted ceramic vase.
Italian manufacture, 1970's.
Murano, 20th century, egg-shaped vase in iridescent glass.
1950s.
Gio Ponti Richard Ginori,
Oval vase in cast earthenware and matt enamel with handles and mouth in polychrome. Stamp of the manufacture. Prod. San Cristoforo, Milan, 1930's.
Painted ceramic figure of a young woman.
Francesco Parente, Florence 1940ca.
Signature on the back.
Art Deco ceramic vase with silver decorations.
French manufacture, 1930's.
Complete bar set, consisting of an ice bucket, a glacette and 6 glasses covered in two-tone Gucci fabric.
Produced under license from the Gucci fashion house, ca. 1970.
Manufacturer's brand, Lidiat, Made in Italy.
Pair of mannequins in iron rod and perforated sheet metal "him and her." Made for the scenes of a movie.
Italian manufacture 90's.
Ico Parisi(1916-1996)
Refined wood and brass coat hanger.
Manufacture ca.1950.
Michael Thonet (1796-1871)
Magazine rack in bent beech and polished with black aniline.
Manufacturing Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Vienna Secession 1900-1920ca.
Rare pair of splendid Venetian palace torch holders, finely carved with candle holder arm and crown in shaped sheet metal in the shape of a crown.
Venice, Late Baroque, Rococo period, ca. 1730-1750.
Magazine rack in perforated metal and brass.
Italian manufacture 1950.
Gio Ponti (1891-1979)
Turned copper umbrella stand with continuous ribbon crown.
Nino Ferrari Manufacture ca. 1935
Lacquered wood table football with green cloth.
France 1930s.
Pair of large turned wooden torch holders.
Northern Italian manufacture, 17th century.
3 beautiful painted plaster advertising figures in excellent original condition.
Manufactured for Christian Dior, France 1930-1960.
Large bottle made of woven sorghum slats. Italy 1960 ca.
Large basket with lid and handle in woven linden wood.
Italian manufacture, 1900.
Wooden toy of German origin, 1970's
Elegant magazine rack in dark wood.
Italian manufacture, 1950's.
Fontana Arte Milano
Large Nile green ground glass thermometer with brass structure.
Manufactured in the 40s/50s.
Pair of screens with wooden frame and fabric with collage made up of figures and floral compositions.
England 1920s-1930s.
Two table mannequins in fabric and turned wood.
Italy in the 1930s.
Coat hanger in lacquered metal and teak wood.
Italy 1960ca.
