Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte Inspired Chandelier

Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte style pendant or lantern. This stunning italian chandelier or lantern is comprised of sheets of glass...

Italian brass and glass Modernist chandelier-Fontana Arte Style. This stunning Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte style modernist brass and glass chandelier is comprised of six large opaline glass shades on a brass structure. Rod could be replaced with a longer one if extra height is needed. This unusual chandelier...

Pair of Italian Fontana Arte inspired glass sconces. Stunning unusual pair of Mid-Century Modern glass sconces after Fontana Arte. These ...

Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte attributed round glass convex mirror. This stunning Italian Mid-Century Modern convex mirror is comprised of a round sheet of glass surrounded ...

Pair of Italian Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Inspired Murano glass sconces. Stunning pair of Italian Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte inspired glass sconces. This gorgeous pair of Italian midcentury glass block Murano...

Italian Zero Quattro-Fontana Arte frosted glass chandelier. Chic Italian Mid-Century Modern sandblasted chiselled glass lantern style chandelier...

Etched glass three-leaf chandelier after Pietro Chiesa, 1940s. The fixture features delicate pieces of milky hand blown glass elements tethered to a gilt brass structure, each of wh...

Amazing pendant with finely hand chiseled glass with hibiscus motifs. Elegant brass frame in excellent vintage condition. The disc centered by six E 14 light bulbs, up to 40 watts p...

Finely hand chiseled glass with hibiscus motifs with brass rim in excellent vintage condition. The disc covering three E 14 light bulbs. This piece is from Fontana Arte designed Attr...

Beautiful midcentury brass and chiselled glass chandelier. This fantastic piece was designed by Pietro Chiesa in Italy during the 1940s for F...

This Mid-Century chandelier in curved crystal and brass was designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte in the 1940s. Produced by Fontana Arte after Pietro Chiesa Italian Art Deco designer Pietro Chiesa was born in Milan in 1892 into a family of artists from Ticino, Switzerland. After his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he completed an apprenticeship at the studio of furniture designer Giovan Battista Giannotti; after gathering enough confidence and experience, Chiesa opened his studio in 1921 under the name of Bottega di Pietro Chiesa. Known above all for his work as a glassmaker, Chiesa presented his work for the first time in 1925 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. In 1932 his studio became part of Fontana Arte, the legendary Italian manufacturer of lighting and glass objects founded by Gio Ponti and Luigi Fontana. Chiesa becomes the artistic director of the company and over the years has designed numerous models for Fontana Arte, including lamps, windows, tables and artistic furnishing objects. Among the most noteworthy pieces signed by the designer, we mention the Fontana table (1932), made of a single transparent molded glass beam, the Cartoccio vase (1932), and the Luminator lacquered brass floor lamp...

This midcentury glass and brass chandelier was designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte in the 1940s. The Italian Art Deco d...