Max Ingrand Furniture

Made in Italy, 1950s - 1960s. This vide-poche / ashtray is made in 3-cm thick dark green curved and ground glass. On the bottom it shows slight traces of use. It is a vintage piec...

Max Ingrand was a French designer, glassworker, and decorator. After studying at the National School for Decorative Arts of Paris, he mastered the techniques of stained and engraved ...

This is an early Fontana rare ashtray signed with both FX and Fontana Italy, this kind of work was made under the direction of both Pietro Chiesa and Max Ingrained.

This rare ceiling lamp by the French designer and glass painter Max Ingrand was designed for Fontana Arte in 1960, known as the ‘1954’ model. This beautiful harmonious lamp is made o...

Pair of opaline glass lamps by Max Ingrand and Pietro Raimondi for Fontana Arte. US Wiring and each takes a regular Bulb or LED bulb. In very good condition, no chips, no breaks. L...

Made in Italy, 1950s. This vide-poche / ashtray is made in 3-cm thick Nile green ground glass. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be co...

Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte rare and exquisite pair of modernist sconces or wall lights with light blue bent cut and bevelled glass and smaller central bent frosted glass held by br...

Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte exquisite glass dish or vide poche with colored profiled and curved glass resting on an angular fitted black enameled metal base, Italy, c. 1956. The sop...

Questo capolavoro di design incarna la perfetta fusione tra arte e funzionalità, rendendolo un elemento imprescindibile per chi desidera arricchire i propri spazi con un tocco di raf...

Beautiful and rare suspension model 1748 designed by Max ingrand in 1957 for Fontana Arte. The suspension is made of a free shaped acid frosted glass diffuser with six chiselled glas...

Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte table lamp model 2344 consisting of a frosted glass shade mounted on a nickel-plated brass base and brushed that creates a brilliant light when lit, It...

Vintage pendant with two large curved faceted beveled glasses, mounted on chrome frame by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte/ Made in Italy, circa 1960s

Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte rare and elegant floor lamp model 1692 composed of brass stem tapering towards the top and bottom with decorative brass element on top holding tinted fro...

Max Ingrand design years '60 for Fontana Arte space age ceiling lamp 2027 six point light. Measure long 32 inches, perfect original condition a. vo...

Max Ingrand project, 1954, for Fontana Arte, Italy, white satin glass, small brass seal in the vase, metal base, white lacquered. Best known for its elegant and innovative vintage lighting pieces, the Milan-based firm Fontana Arte pioneered one of the key features of 20th-century and contemporary Italian design: the union of artistry and industry wrought by partnerships between creative talents — chiefly architects — and entrepreneurial businesses. Fontana Arte is further distinguished by having had as artistic director, in succession, four of Italy’s most inventive modernist designers: Giò Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, French transplant Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti. The bread and butter of the glassmaking company that Luigi Fontana founded in 1881 was plate-glass panels for the construction industry. In 1930, Fontana met Ponti — then the artistic director of the Richard-Ginori ceramics workshop and the editor of the influential magazine Domus— at a biannual design exhibition that became the precursor to today’s Milan Design Triennale, and the two hatched an idea for a furniture and housewares firm. Fontana Arte was incorporated in 1932 with Ponti as its chief of design. He contributed several lamps that remain among the company’s signature works, including the orb-atop-cone Bilia table lamp and the 0024 pendant — a stratified hanging sphere. The following year, Fontana Arte partnered with the influential Milan studio glassmaker and retailer Pietro Chiesa, who took over as artistic director. Chiesa’s designs for lighting — as well as for tables and items including vases and ashtrays — express an appreciation for fluidity and simplicity of line, as seen in works such as his flute-shaped Luminator floor lamp and the 1932 Fontana table — an arched sheet of glass that is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Six years after Chiesa’s 1948 death, the École des Beaux Arts–trained Max Ingrand took over as head of design at Fontana Arte. Ingrand brought a similarly expressive formal sensibility to wares such as lamps and mirrors, but he also had a masterful eye for the manipulation of glass surfaces — whether they be cut, frosted, acid-etched or sand-blasted. His classic design is the Fontana table lamp of 1954, which has a truncated cone shade and curved body, both of which are made of pure, chic white-frosted glass. Following Ingrand, the often-audacious Italian architect Gae Aulenti served as the company’s artistic director from 1979 to 1996, and while she generally insisted that furnishings take second place aesthetically to architecture, she made an exception for Fontana Arte pieces such as the Tavolo con Ruote series of glass coffee and dining tables on wheels...

Rare pair of sculptural wall sconces designed by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, circa 1960s. Each fixture features a leaf-shaped structure composed of thick curved glass with a froste...

Chiseled crystal table lamp by Max Ingrand for French glass company Saint Gobain. Turquoise colored crystal resting on brushed nickel-plated brass circular base. Impressed manufactur...

Rare set of three original illuminated vases. Model no 2483 c1966 by Max Ingrand Three varying sizes of lamps 74cm x 12cm 60cm x 11cm 46cm x 10cm Fontana Arte sales catalogue Mi...

Blue Fruit Bowl "Model 1419" by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, circa 1960 Fontana Arte original label present In excellent vintage condition. Glass is near perfect. The brass ba...

Circular mirror mod. "1669", design Max Ingrand, Production Fontana Arte, Italy 1960. Curved and ground colored crystal with nickel-plated brass edge. Bibliography: Quaderni Fonta...

Classic drop-shaped pendant designed by Max Ingrand. Two thick and heavy glass panels with frosted glass center to diffuse the single E14 lightbulb. We als have one with brown/yello...

Table Lamp Mod. 2462 by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, 1960s

Max Ingrand, Pair of rare rose colored acid-etched crystal table lamps or sconces, glass and brass, designed for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1950s. It is an extremely sophisticated model, ...

Rare and unusual pendant designed by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte in the late 1960s, chrome cap and white inner reflector. Etched and frosted diffuser glass. In excellent condition, ...

Mid-Century Suspension 1748 by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy

Bronzed metal and crystal pendant lamp Model 1995 designed by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy, circa 1960. This quality but simple stylish pendant would be ideal above an ele...

Paire of huge 1960s candlestick designed by Max Ingrand

Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte table lamp composed of frosted glass shade mounted on brushed nickel base creating a lustrous glo...

A globular bubble glass table lamp designed by Max Ingrand for the renowned French glass company, Saint-Gobain. This stunning lamp features an organic form, chiseled glass piece that...

A rare, Mod. 1195 nickel-plated brass ceiling pendant by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy c.1960. This tapered, conical shaped ceiling light has a lovely aged patina which contras...

Mid-century Rectangular mirror model 2014 by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, 1960s Designer Biography : "Max Ingrand was born in 1908 in Bressuire, France. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he specialized in decorative art. In 1931 Ingrand established his own workshop, where he experimented transparency, and light, notably with stained glass. Mad Ingrand was educated in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he studied interior design and specialized in decorative arts graduating in 1927. While at school, he apprenticed to renowned stained glass artist Jacques Grüber, known for his Art Nouveau stained glass windows...

A stunning and impeccably crafted model '2004' crystal dish designed by Max Ingrand and produced by Fontana Arte in 1955. This lidded dish features a pinkish-orange crystal body, exp...

A square mirror adorned with a wreath of flowers, butterflies, ladybugs, and ribbon, a creation of the verre e´glomise´ masters of their time, husband and wife duo Max and Paule Ingrand...

Max Ingrand Mirror model “1669” Manufactured by Fontana Arte Italy, 1950s Colored glass, mirrored glass. Measurements 71 Ø cm. 28 Ø in. Provenance Private collection, ...

Flower Shaped Mirror by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1960s

Coffee table on four forked brass legs supporting the slightly rounded glass top. The table was designed in 1956 by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte.  

Max Ingrand (1908-1969) Glass table Manufactured by Fontana Arte Italy, 1960 Glass Measurements 75 cm x 75 cm x 35h cm. 29.52 in x 29.52 in x 13.77 H in. Literature I Q...