Vintage Sabattini's Scoops, Italy, 1960s

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Vintage Sabattini's Scoops, Italy, 1960s

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These are two Sabattini's scoops. A pair of scoops designed by the silver master Lino Sabattini in 1960s. In metal, silver plate, in excellent condition, with a very sophisticated line and a vintage touch. You could collect a made in Italy artwork, with the great signature of Lino Sabattini, a name indissolubly bound with the name of Gio Ponti. Lino Sabattini (Correggio, 1925) When Lino Sabattini, the silver master, was a child, found a copy of Gio’ Ponti review “Domus”. It became his textbook, his Bible. In the brassware shop he earned his living, but he also learned the techniques of metal’s trade. In an old windmill on the lake meets Rolando Hettner, a displaced German who made beautiful works of pottery, painted and read great numbers of books. The man in the old windmill became the exhilarating experience of his spare time, a master of existential tension who encouraged Sabattini to seek radically new artistic solutions for his work. Now thirty, Sabattini left Blevio for Milan, where he found basement and setup up a small laboratory with all the essential tools for his craft. His contacts with “Domus” became more frequent. He began to meet young architects and pupils studying under Gio’ Ponti. One of them brought the master a few metal objects created by the young craftsman. So, one day Ponti himself showed up in Sabattini’s basement. He looked around, handled a few objects and gave Sabattini an idea to work on. In no more than three days Sabattini has finished the job. Ponti was enthusiastic. This was the beginning of a long friendship marked by several fundamental landmarks: Milan Triennials, Venice Biennials, the publication of his works and a one-man exhibition both in Italy and abroad. In 1956 Sabattini caused sensation with the prototype of the “Como” Set at the Paris Exhibition “Shapes and Ideas from Italy”. From 1958-1963 he worked in Paris and in Milan for Christofle, a prestigious company, trying in vain to sweep away stale and lifeless production work. In 1964 he moved to Bregnano, a little spot between Milan and Como. He became the entrepreneur of his own ideas, sensibility and diversity which found no place in the contemporary world of production. This began a solitary adventure which eventually took solid shapes in the Argenteria Sabattini, where he created beautiful silver shaped of exquisite simplicity.

Creator:
Lino Sabattini (Workshop/Studio)
Dimensions:
Height: 3.94 in (10 cm)Diameter: 2.76 in (7 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Materials and Techniques:
Metal,Silver Plate
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1960s
Condition:
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Seller Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: M-1042121stDibs: LU2698317021192

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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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