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Gabriella Crespi Brass Pill Cigarette Card Box Italian, 1970s

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Gabriella Crespi brass pill cigarette card box Italian, 1970s Measures: 4.4 inches wide on each side 0.3 inches deep Born in 1922, Gabriella Crespi studies architecture at the Politecnico in Milan, where her work is permeated by her perspective on Le Corbusier’s and Frank Lloyd Wright’s design experience. Since the 1950s, she has dedicated herself to the creation and worldwide circulation of furniture and other objects that balance design and sculptural abstraction. Thanks to her always original conception and ideas, to the articulated forms that meet the needs of contemporary design, and to the amazing ability to transform objects by adding openings, closings, and changes in function, Gabriella Crespi has conquered the international scene in a short time. Her creative journey still incisively inspires the expressive creativity of the current generation of artists. Crespi began her career as a designer in the 1950s with her first production of objects, the "Small Lune Collection", steel moon-shaped sculptures, in which the stylistic influences of time converge and are transformed. In the beginning of the 1960s, she established an enthusiastic creative relationship with Maison Dior, especially in the context of home and table accessories and, from the 1970s, with furniture. In 1968, the prototype of her first "Plurimo" was exhibited in Dallas a representative of Italian design of the era. In 1970, Gabriella’s daughter, Elisabetta, began her collaboration in the famous "Plurimi" series, the name of which is a tribute to Emilio Vedova. These "metamorphic" furniture pieces ("Magic Cube," "2000," "Dama," "Scultura") are a play on volumes and evolutionary possibilities of the same form that change in space, in perpetual dialogue with both the environment and light. That same year, "Kaleidoscopes" and "Lune", the leitmotif of Gabriella Crespi’s poetic philosophy, were born: sculptures and lamps that introduced a creative intervention in design. Between 1970 and 1974, she created her most significant lost-wax works, including the sculpture “My Soul” (1974), the "Animali" collections, (bronze sculptures with a fairy-like feel that reveal Gabriella’s relentless attention to the natural world), "Jewels," and "Gocce Oro:" free flowing sculptures conceived through the ancient and precious process of lost-wax casting. Between 1972 and 1975, she designed the "Quick Change Sofa", the "Z" line ( "Z Bar," "Z Desk" ) and the "Rising Sun" bamboo collection, material much loved by Crespi that, as she says, "unites strength and flexibility." The famous "Fungo" lamps (1973) are part of this collection. In 1976, the new "Plurimi" ("Ellisse" and "Cubo Tondo"), the "Sheherazade" collection, and the "Stone Sculptures" took shape. Between 1978 and 1980, the bookcase-block "Menhir" (1978), the "Yang Yin" collection (1979), and the two sculpted tables "Ara" (1979) and "Lunante" (1980) were created. In 1980, Gabriella Crespi designed three new "Plurimi" ("Blow Up," "Eclipse," "Sit & Sip") and in 1982 she presented "Punto ’83," her last "Plurimo" and a unique piece (one prototype was realized in the same year), at Milan’s Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica as part of the exhibition "I Plurimi di Gabriella Crespi" introduced by Vanni Scheiwiller. In 1985 she released the last interviews on her work as a designer before setting out on a new life completely devoted to the spiritual quest, a path she follows to this today.  Same era as: Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouve, Pierre Pauline, Serge Mouille, Jacques Adnet, Jean Royere, Roger Tallon, Michel Buffet, Pierre Guariche, Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Guglielmo Ulrich, Jo Colombo, Ettore Sottsass, Marco Zanuso, Osvaldo Borsani, Ico Parisi, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, Florence Knoll, Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Paul Mccobb, Edward Wormley, Vladimir Kagan, Milo Baughman, Maison Bagues, Maison Jansen, Other lighting companies: Maison Lunel, Stilnovo, Fontana Arte, Kalmar, Louis Poulsen, Arredoluce, Vistosi, Barovier and Toso, Arteluce, Artemide, Robert Mathieu, Vistosi, Max Ingrand,
  • Creator:
    Gabriella Crespi (Designer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 4.4 in (11.18 cm)Width: 4.4 in (11.18 cm)Depth: 0.3 in (7.62 mm)
  • Style:
    Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1972
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. some scratches to the bottom and minor oxidation of the brass in 2 small areas shown on photos.
  • Seller Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU189334991723

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