Max Ingrand Furniture

Max Ingrand “1598” sconces for Fontana Arte, glass, brass and metal, Italy, 1956, set of three. The "1598" wall sconce, designed by Max Ingrand and p...

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...

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...

Fontana Arte large gray glass dish or centerpiece with profiled and curved glass resting on an angular fitted black enameled metal base, Italy, c. 1956. This gray glass is a rare colorway in this model and the form is quite elegant in its curved form. Literture: Roberto Aloi, Esempi di Decorazione Moderna di Tutto il mondo, Vetri d’Oggi, Milan, 1955, p.54 (picture 11) Franco Deboni, Fontana Arte : Gio Ponti, Pietra Chiesa...

Opaque glass, chiseled glass, chrome plated brass Model 2441 table lamp by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte. This style allows for multiple variations, within context. They have been ...

Pair of vintage wall lights with clear curved beveled glasses and decorative engraving on mounted on brass frames by Max Ingrand for Fontan...

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, ...

1960s planter by French designer Max Ingrand. Wood, gilding, trompe-l'œil travertine.

Mid-Century Suspension Mod. 2364 by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy

Satin and beveled glass screens, metal and brass frame, Fontana Arte edition Made by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, model 1943.

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...

Glass pendant by Max Ingrand (1908-1969) for Fontana Arte. It's known by the name of Model 2259. Peter Fiell (2005) "1000 Lights 1878 to 1959" p. 481. Italy, CIRCA 1960.