Bowl 'Candara' by Lino Sabattini, Italy, 1970

About the Item

A bowl with the name Candara with a simplistic and iconic design by renowned italian designer Lino Sabattini from circa 1970. The condition is good albeit with some wear (see pictures). Lino Sabattini was born in Correggio (Reggio Emilia) the 23rd of September 1925. While he was still a child, his family moved to Blevio on the Como Lake. At the age of 14 he found a work in Como, in a commonplace brass objectst shop. Soon he found a copy of Gio’ Ponti review “Domus”. It became his correspondence school. In the brassware shop he earned his living, but he also learned the techniques of metal’s trade. Soon he meets Rolando Hettner an artist residing in a mill.The man of the old mill becomes his mentor and inspiration, which he encourages to break through artistic solutions. Sabattini by the age of thirty, left Blevio to move to Milan where he set up a small workshop. Now he also knows students of Gio' Ponti. One of these brings to the master some metal objects created by the young craftsman. One day Ponti shows up at his door and gives him an IDEA to develop. Only three days go by and Sabattini finishes the job. Ponti is enthusiastic about it. Thus begins the friendship relationship marked by milestones: Milan Triennials, Venice Biennials, publications in the best magazines in the world, one-man shows in Italy and abroad. In 1956 Sabattini creates a sensation with the prototype of the “Como” service at the Paris exhibition “Forme ed idee d'Italia”. From 1958 to 1963 he worked in Paris and Milan for Christofle. In 1964 he moved to Bregnano where he becomes an entrepreneur of his own ideas, that found no space in the contemporary productive world. This is how he begins his solitary adventure which takes shape in the Sabattini Argenteria, where he creates the most graceful shapes in silver.

Creator:

Lino Sabattini (Designer),Sabattini Argenteria (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 5.52 in (14 cm)Width: 10.63 in (27 cm)Depth: 12.21 in (31 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Silver Plate

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1970

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Albano Laziale, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1813333403092

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Lino Sabattini

Lino Sabattini was the preeminent figure in modern Italian silver and metalware design. His expansive and diverse body of work is marked by its strength and boldness, whether in dynamic forms that suggest the thrust and power of Italian Futurist art and design or light and curvaceous biomorphic serveware and decorative objects.

Sabattini was largely self-taught as a designer. Born in the northern Italian town of Correggio, he learned metalsmithing techniques while working in the studio of a maker of brass tableware. He also served as an apprentice of sorts to the expatriate German ceramist Roland Hettner, who taught Sabattini about fluidity of form and showed him how shapes derive from the behavior of materials.

At age 30, Sabattini opened a studio in Milan, and his work quickly came to the attention of Gio Ponti, who decided to publish it in Domus, the Italian design legend's influential design and architecture magazine. Ponti also arranged for Sabattini’s creations to be included in a 1956 exhibition of contemporary Italian design in Paris. The principals of Christofle, the revered French silverware maker, were so impressed that they hired the young designer as the firm’s artistic director, a post he held until 1963. Sabattini, who would also go on to design ceramic wares for Rosenthal, returned home to open Argenteria Sabattini in Bregnano, a company still in business today.

A designer with a questing curiosity and ever-evolving aesthetic sensibility, Sabattini couldn’t be pinned down to one particular style. His best-known work, the Como coffee and tea service of 1956, has an elegant, attenuated and energetic form; his Stairs coffee and tea service (1971), meanwhile, is a clever group of simple columnar shapes in stepped heights, which nest together in a compact arrangement. Other Sabattini pieces have dramatic angles, or sweeping, wing-like flourishes, or consist of perforated ovoids somehow reminiscent of sculptures by Brancusi. In any style, Sabattini produced objects of singular fascination.

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