Elio Martinelli, Calotta Chandelier, Metal, Italy, circa 1960

Venini, white opaline luster, black glass, circa 1960, Italy. Height 87 cm, diameter 70 cm.

Alessandro Mazzucotelli, luster, iron, signed, circa 1900, Italy. Measures: Height 120 cm, diameter 60 cm.

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Akari Suspension Model 33N, Washi paper, Edition Ozeki & Co, Ltd. With its original box, United States, circa 1970. Measures: 158 x 40 x 40 cm. Isamu Noguchi was born on November 17, 1904, in Los Angeles. His Japanese father was a poet and his American mother a writer. In 1906, the family moved to Japan. He was sent to Indiana for schooling in 1918, and in 1922 he apprenticed to the sculptor Gutzon Borglum in Connecticut. For the next two years, he was a premedical student at Columbia University, New York, and took sculpture classes at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, also in New York. Noguchi decided to become an artist and left Columbia in 1925. A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1927 enabled him to go to Paris, where he worked as Constantin Brancusi’s studio assistant. In Paris, he became friendly with Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Jules Pascin. Noguchi returned to New York in 1928 and the following year showed abstract sculpture in his first solo show at the Eugene Schoen Gallery. In 1930, Noguchi traveled in Europe and Asia, studying calligraphy in China and pottery in Japan. In New York during the early 1930s, he associated with Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Chaim Gross, and Moses and Raphael Soyer, and introduced social content into his work. He began to design playgrounds, furniture, and theater decor, executing the first of numerous sets for Martha Graham. During World War II, Noguchi became a political activist and voluntarily spent seven months in 1941–42 at a Japanese-American relocation camp in Arizona. In 1949, he was given a solo show at the Egan Gallery, New York. In Japan in 1950–51, he designed gardens, bridges, and monuments and developed his akari (paper lanterns). He showed at the Stable Gallery, New York, in 1954 and 1959. Noguchi’s first solo show in Paris was held at the Galerie Claude Bernard in 1964. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, honored him with a major retrospective in 1968. Throughout the 1970s, Noguchi continued to make large outdoor sculpture and fountains...

In the style of Kérylos, Neoclassical suspension, Composed of a multi-layered glass basin with acid-free decoration of antique muses and bronze, circa 1...

Marcel Wanders, Skygarden pendant lamp, shiny white aluminum covered with white plaster, sculpted Edition Flos, circa 2000, Holland, Netherlands. Height 46 cm, diameter 91.5 cm. Fan...

Sideboard with two drawers, wood structure, with decor painted in the Venetian style circa 1960, Italy. Measures: Height 83 cm, width 150 cm, depth 58 cm.

"Calotta" ceiling lamp by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli. Steel bars folded and curved compose this beautiful pendant lamp.

Ceiling lamp, chromed metal sheets.

"Calotta" hanging fixture made from satin stainless steel. Designed by Elio Martinelli, and produced by Martinelli Luce in 1960s.

Pair of Chandeliers by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli luce .Italy 1960 in painted metal and glass , they have the production mark .They are a pair one smaller cm 30 with height cm 8...

Floor lamp Flex model 2164 by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli Luce, 1960 Italy. The 'Flex' floor lamp (model flex Calotta) was designed by Elio Martinelli for Martinelli Luce, Italy i...

A rare ceiling lamp or chandelier (model Step) with a semisphere lampshade in black lacquered aluminum, it was designed by Elio Martinelli and produced by the Italian company, Martinelli Luce during the 1970s. The concentric shapes repeated in a precise sequence, from which the Step lamp is structured, reveal an attitude of the designer in search of geometric essentiality. It is a lamp characterized by simple and functional lines in which all the elements are inserted into each other reducing to a disk a few centimeters high, with closing system and telescopic opening. Its particular metal lamellar structure recalls some of the most famous lamps by Alvar Aalto and the hexagonal lamp designed in 1959 by Bruno Munare for Danese. Literature: Emiliana Martinelli, Elio Martinelli e Martinelli...