Stilnovo, Suspension, Production Stilnovo, Producing label, circa 1950, Italy

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...

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

Toni Cordero, candleholders, metal and enamelled copper, stone base. Production Studio Del Campo, circa 1980, Italy. Height: 77 cm, diameter: 10 cm.

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

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...

Stilnovo suspension light. Designed and manufactured in Italy in 1950s. Glass, enameled metal, brass. Three Edison bulbs. Complimentary US...

Italian suspension lamp by Stilnovo, 1950s. Quantity 2. Dimensions: H= 92 cm; W= 30 cm; D= 10 cm.

Rare Stilnovo suspension light from the early 1950s. A cylindrical, tiered satin glass diffuser with a red lacquered and pierced aluminum shade is suspended by three nylon wires. Ver...

Original Stilnovo suspension or pendant light model 1104 with opaque satin glass diffuser, enameled metal, original brass canopy with matching custom ceiling plate. The opaque glass ...

1960s suspension in brass and glass made in Italy attributable to the Italian company Stilnovo.

Rare double suspension chandelier Stilnovo, Italy, 1950 Two-cord suspension light with original canopy. Two red lacquered aluminum slightly conical tubes with glass disks. The fixtu...