By Giovanni Dalla Fina
Located in Villaverla, IT
Pair of Italian Murano glass architectural table lamps crafted during the nineteen seventies showcases dramatic Hollywood Regency and Baroque revival lighting design by master glassmaker Giovanni Dalla Fina. Handcrafted in Italy, each matching luminaire rises from a broad, domed circular pedestal base into a slender, soaring columnar neck accented with a polished gold-finished ring collar. Flanking the central white glass shaft are sculpted, wing-like acanthus leaf brackets, elevating the stately silhouette toward tall, tapered black pleated silk fabric shades cleanly edged with tailored white piping borders.
Master artisans mouth-blew and hand-tooled each sculptural element at the furnace using traditional Venetian casing and hot-modeling techniques (a mano volante). The central columnar stem and rounded foot are executed in pristine, opaque milk-white glass (lattimo), framed by gold-leaf trim at the base and waist. In striking decorative contrast, the flanking foliate leaf brackets are hand-sculpted in rich smoked topaz and black glass richly infused with shimmering twenty-four-karat gold leaf dust (foglia d'oro), serrated with deeply crimped, ruffled borders. When illuminated, light washes downward from beneath the dark pleated shades, bathing the glossy white columns while igniting the suspended gold flecks within the sculpted leaf wings to project warm champagne highlights, specular refractions, and ornate architectural silhouettes across surrounding interiors.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Dalla Fina Lighting