LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Textured glass, clear glass, mirrored glass, coloured glass, brass

Size Notes:

vase; picture frame: 18 x 13 x 9cm; ashtray: 6cm high, 15cm diameter; table mirror: 33 x 29.5 x 15cm

Description:

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Markings:

Vase: with manufacturer's partial paper label 'FONTANA'; picture frame: with two manufacturer's paper labels 'fa/CRISTALLO/ST. GOBAIN' and the other 'calleri/via roma/genova'; table mirror: with manufacturer's partial paper label 'FONTANA/FONTANA/MILANO'

Literature:

Fontana Arte archive image no. 2 for a similar example of the picture frame; Roberto Aloi, L' Arredamento Moderno, Milan, 1955, fig. 3 for the picture frame; 'Fontana Arte: Illuminazione', Fontana Arte sales catalogue, Milan, for the ashtray, n.p.; Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi, eds., Il Design Italiano Degli Anni '50, Milan, 1985, p. 11, p. 190, fig. 627 for the vase; Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 13 for the vase; Laura Falconi, Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Milan, 1998, p. 77 for the vase; Franco Deboni, Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Turin, 2012, p. 257, fig. 261 for a drawing of a similar example, fig. 270 for the vase