Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Italian, 1927-1994
The work of celebrated mid-century Italian lighting designer and entrepreneur Angelo Gaetano Sciolari became widely popular in the United States during the postwar years and strongly influenced lighting makers around the world. The sculptural forms and striking geometric details of his vintage floor lamps, chandeliers and other fixtures fit seamlessly into the mid-century modern and Hollywood Regency interiors of the day.
Sciolari formally studied architecture but also pursued filmmaking for a short period. When his father passed away in 1949, Sciolari took the reins at his family's company, Sciolari Lighting, which had been in business in Rome since 1892. The manufacturer expanded considerably under Gaetano’s leadership. For one, pioneering American lighting company Lightolier, in New York City, began to import the Italian brand’s lighting for the U.S. market, and Lightolier’s star designer, Gerald Thurston, was significantly influenced by Gaetano’s work. In the 1970s, Americans looking to add provocative fixtures created by Gaetano Sciolari to their living rooms could find them in Lightolier catalogs.
Sciolari initially crafted lamps and sconces that bore the hallmarks of traditional Italian design. But during the 1950s, when he would become the in-house designer for legendary Milan lighting manufacturer Stilnovo — one of the leaders of Italian postwar design — he created revolutionary fixtures that endured as his best-known work.
Sciolari drew on a range of influences — enthusiasts see the imprint of Art Deco, brutalism and more in his lighting — and designed futuristic Space Age chandeliers, ceiling lamps and pendants for Stilnovo as well as Stilkronen and S.A. Boulanger that defied the conventions of the time. A dizzying array of materials and finishes characterizes the designer’s work, while geometry is pronounced in each sculptural fixture — there are blown opal glass spheres, polished chrome tubes and brass square bulb holders. These combinations were critical to the development of dazzling lighting that proves eye-catching in any space decades later.
On 1stDibs, find vintage Angelo Gaetano Sciolari lighting today.
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Creator: Gaetano Sciolari
Sciolari Minimal Sculptural Chandelier Brass and Glass Italian Design
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sciolari minimal sculptural chandelier brass and glass.
Nine lights, small attack E14.
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1970s Italian Minimalist Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass, Steel, Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Modernist Chrome Ceiling Pendant Light
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in New York, NY
Italian modernist ceiling pendant light in chrome designed by famed Italian designed Gaetano Sciolari. The piece is in great vintage condition and takes sixteen light bulbs, two per ...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Space Age Metal Vintage Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, 1960s, Italy
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age metal vintage chandelier or pendant from chromed metal by Gaetano Sciolari, Italy 1960s.
A fantastic chromium plated metal sputnik chandelier...
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1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Modern chrome wallight by Sciolari, Italy
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in London, GB
Exceptional and rare large wallight in polished chrome with plexi glass cubes and panels and brass rods designed by Gaetano Sciolari.
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, 1960s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Budapest, HU
Three-tier shaped crystals on brass-plated frame. Three-tier, 13 lights.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Pair of Chrome and Glass Sconces
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish set of Scolari wall sconces were acquired from a South Beach, Miami estate and will make a definite statement in your home.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Polished Aluminum 'Cyclone' Pendant Fixture by Gaetano Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gaetano Sciolari 1970s 'Cyclone' ceiling fixture composed of polished aluminum rings mounted to a center cylindrical shade in white acrylic with chromed-metal accents, canopy, and ha...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
Mid-Century Modern Silver Plated Crystal Chandelier, Gaetano Sciolari Italy 1960
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Twelve round chandelier with crystal pendants and fixed crystal rods on two levels. In excellent condition, wiring has been checked and ...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Metal
Italian Midcentury Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Rome, IT
With the chrome frame supports 32 chains with chrome tubing and crystal balls to create an
elegant timeless chandelier.
We can rewire for the US. Standards. Eight-light bulbs E 14.
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Chandelier Ovali by Sciolari, Italy, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in SAINT-OUEN, FR
Chandelier or ceiling pendant light by the designer Gaetano Sciolari, rare in this large size of the Ovali model. In a neoclassical style. Original Sciolari stamp. Height 70cms witho...
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1970s Italian Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
1970s Chrome, Brushed Brass and Glass Chandelier by Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Amsterdam, NH
Stylish chrome an brushed brass chandelier with profiled glass diffusers that lock into a tubular chrome frame, Five arms and six lights, Scio...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari for Lightolier Two-Tiered Glass Rod and Brass Chandelier
By Lightolier, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Chicago, IL
Gaetano Sciolari for Lightolier glass rod and brass two-tiered waterfall flush mount chandelier. Chrome-plated hexagonal ceiling mount with six brass plated reverse trefoil fitters. ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome, Brass
Gaetano Sciolari Chrome Pendant Light, Italy, 1970
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
Gorgeous chrome chandelier or pendant light by Sciolari. Made in Italy, 1970s.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Eight-Light Spoke Chandelier by Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in New York, NY
Sophisticated spoke form chandelier by Sciolari. Eight arms each having a candle light bulb. Silver plated brass with decorative gun metal trim. The me...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Silver Plate
Chrome Sciolari Trumpet Chandelier, Italy, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
Monumental chrome trumpet chandelier.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Newly Rewied Gaetano Sciolari Italian Modernist Chrome & Lucite Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
Gaetano Sciolari Italian Modernist Chrome Chandelier
Offered for sale is a 1970s modernist chandelier by the Italian lighting designer Gaetano Sciolari created in an angular geometr...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Vintage Sciolari Chrome Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A nice 1970s era Sciolari chrome and white paint chandelier. It has six lights and the top half of the silvered bulbs peek out.
Losses to the...
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1970s American Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Gold-plated metal and faceted crystal chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari.
Rewired for US.
Nine candelabra sockets. Max 60 watt per socket...
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Late 20th Century Italian Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Gorgeous Gaetano Sciolari 1970s Chrome and Lucite Chandelier Midcentury
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Gorgeous 1970s Italian chandelier composed of polished chrome and Lucite-designed by Gaetano Sciolari.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in North Miami, FL
Sublimely simple and modern 36-light chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, circa 1968. Black spokes radiating from the center support 18 polished aluminum vertical rods with sockets at bot...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Very Rare and Incredible Beautiful Large Chandelier by Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
What a beautiful chandelier, was told came from a Hotel, it has 768 glass rodes, if you cannot see they is two row of glass rodes, one row with a clear glass rod and one row of frosted glass rod...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Chandelier in Chrome and Cream by Gaetano Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in London, GB
Minimalist chrome nine arm chandelier with nine lights and cream metal plates by one of the leading Mid Century lighting designers Gaetano Sciolari, Italy, marked with the original l...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Geometric Pair of Sconces Metal Chrome Brass Sciolari Italian Design, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Geometric pair of sconces metal chrome brass Sciolari Italian design, 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Modernist Sculpture Chandelier Sciolari, Design 1970 Brass Steel Italian Design
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Modernist sculpture chandelier Sciolari, design 1970, brass ang chrome metal.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Italian Desk Lamp by Gaetano Scolari for Ecolight Milano
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Table lamp by Ecolight Milano this company is founded at 1960 s Table lamp is Design by Gaetano Sciolari Pivoting shade, extending neck multi position. Professional lamp ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Original 1970s Wall Sconces by Gaetano Sciolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A pair of original 1970s wall sconces by Gaetano Sciolari.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Brass Chandelier with Crystal Ornaments, 1960 Italy
By Stilnovo, Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Bronx, NY
Gaetano Sciolari brass chandelier with crystal ellipse shaped ornaments, 1960 Italy with 22 long ellipses shaped crystal pieces, the frame has aged with patina, each crystal is 9" lo...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Beautiful 1970s 5-Arm Wall Light by Gaetano Sciolari, Made in Italy
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in München, DE
Beautiful 1970s 5-armed wall lamp by Gaetano Sciolari. Model 19009. Made in Italy.
With original label. High glossy polished chrome and brass.
High quality minimalistic Sciolari d...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
XXL 1960s Heavy Metal Chandelier in Space Age Design with 16 Sockets
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in München, DE
Very rare large heavy 1960s metal chandelier in Space Age Pop Art design. Very elegant ceiling lamp from an italian production. Attributed to G...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Minimal Wall Sconces Sciolari Design Roma, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Minimal wall sconces Sciolari design Roma 1970s, three lights each.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Big Sculptural Sconces Sciolari Aluminum Steel Minimal Italian 1970 Gold Silver
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sculptural sconces Sciolari aluminum steel minimal Italian 1970s gold silver, plexiglass parts.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Sciolari Chrome 24-Light Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
24-light chandelier deigned by Sciolari rendered in chrome shown with silver tipped bulbs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Mid-century Italian Modern Sciolari Trapezoidal Tubular Glass & Steel Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare steel and glass Italian modern / Postmodern design. Glass tubes serve to refract and emit light in a gorgeous manner and the trapezoidal ring that holds the tubes echoes around ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Steel
Sciolari Nickel and Lucite Modern Chandelier, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
A chrome and Lucite chandelier by Sciolari. Length of chandelier is 38", 50" with the pole in the pictures. Takes 8 regular ch...
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1970s Italian Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Brass Classic Sciolari Chandelier, 1960s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in HEVERLEE, BE
Stunning mid century Gaetano Sciolari chandelier.
This light fixture has a more classical design with twelve candlestick lightpoints and crystal prisms.
The chandelier will loo...
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1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
"Ovali" Italian Sciolari Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Antwerp, BE
1960s chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, Italy.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Sciolari Chrome Floor Lamp--1960s, Italy
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Scolari Chrome Floor Lamp 1960s Italy.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Great Italian Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, Italy 1970s Lighting Chrome Glass
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful chandelier from the 70s by Gaetano Sciolari. The chromed structure supports 32 chains with chrome tubes and crystal balls. The appliance has eight light sources.
Eight lig...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Brushed Stainless Steel Light Fixture, Italian Mid-20th Century
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Gaetano Sciolari brushed stainless steel twenty-arm light fixture with sockets at each end of the extended tube arm. Recently refurbished and re-wired, holds chandelier base bulbs,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Stainless Steel
Minimal Sculpture Ceiling Lamp Sciolari Design Italian Design, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Minimal sculpture ceiling lamp Sciolari design Italian design 1970s, metal chrome brass and Murano cubic glass, very special design.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Hollywood Regency Golden Brass Italian Design 1970 Ceiling Lamp
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Brescia, IT
Gaetano Sciolari
Rome, Italy
1970
Ceiling lamp with nine lights
Golden brass.
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Rare Gaetano Sciolari Floor Lamp, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in L'Escala, ES
Rare Gaetano Sciolari floor lamp manufactured in Italy in 1970s. Brass and Murano glass in very good vintage condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Set of Three Sciolari 1960s Wall Lights
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in New York, NY
An original set of 1960s Italian polished brass and smoked glass globes wall lights by Sciolari. Rewired.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Gaetano Sciolari Vintage Brass and Glass Cube Chandelier, Italian
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in North Miami, FL
This vintage chandelier is Italian by Gaetano Sciolari. It has 13 cube glass lights suspended from a sculptural brass arm attached to a lacquered polished brass middle post. It is ti...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Sciolari Eight-Arm Chrome Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sciolari eight-arm chandelier, circa 1970.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Sculptural Sciolari Chandelier Italian, Design 1970
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sculptural Sciolari chandelier Italian, design 1970, made of brass and chrome.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Gaetano Sciolari Chandelier in Chromo, Glass and Brass Mid-Century Modern
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Rome, IT
A six-arm chandelier with enameled candlesticks, made of glass, brass and chrome, by Sciolari.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome, Brass
Sciolari Trumpet Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sciolari Trumpet Chandelier
6 lights
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Italian Designed Chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari, 1960s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in London, GB
An Italian designed chandelier in brass with crystal drops two-tier, circa 1960.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Sculpture Italian Design Chandelier Crystal Brass Gold Aldo Marchetti 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
1970, chandelier in gilded metal and chromed metal parts, with leaf-shaped crystals, Design Aldo Marchetti per Profili S.P.A, diameter cm. 65, height cm...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Metal, Brass, Chrome
Italian Vintage Sculptural Sixteen-Arm Chandelier Pendant Light 1960s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Berlin, DE
Wonderful vintage 16 Arm modernist Sciolari chandelier.
Italy, 1960s.
Measure: Diameter 20 In
Height (body without bulbs) 9.5 In
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Sculpture Sciolari Chandelier Cubic Aluminium Design, 1970s
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sculpture Sciolari chandelier cubic aluminium design, 1970s.
Category
1970s Minimalist Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Aluminum, Chrome
Table Lamp by Gaetano Scolari
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ecolight Milano tube lamp. This original table lamp by Gaetano Scolari provides ambience light. Lamp is in our NYC showroom in the New York Design Center.
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Aluminum
sciolari chandelier / matching sconces available
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Brooklyn, NY
larger chandelier and sconces available
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Sciolari Steel and Glass Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A Sciolari chandelier with six hanging lights, satin black steel shafts and round crackle glass balls, the mounting ceiling plate is a satin white metal with brass details. The lengt...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Metal
Gaetano Sciolari Elegant Chrome and Acrylic Chandelier
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Geneva, CH
Elegant chrome and acrylic chandelier by Gaetano Sciolari
six arms, signed.
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1970s Italian Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Nice Gaetano Sciolari "Ice Cube" Light Fixture
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid Century modern Gaetano Sciolari light fixture.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Chandeliers in Brass and Nickel Finishes by Gaetano Sciolari with Glass
By Gaetano Sciolari
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Pair of chandeliers designed by Sciolari with nine lights, made of nickel finish stems and brass color panels. Each arms support a clear glass cylinder shade.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gaetano Sciolari Lighting
Materials
Brass
Gaetano Sciolari lighting for sale on 1stDibs.
Gaetano Sciolari lighting are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Gaetano Sciolari lighting, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original lighting by Gaetano Sciolari were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider lighting by Mazzega Murano, Carlo Nason, and Barovier&Toso. Prices for Gaetano Sciolari lighting can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $122 and can go as high as $22,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,588.