This week at Phillips’ launches the inaugural Italian lighting online auction – featuring masterpieces of Italian lighting from across the last 100 years, many of which come to auction from private collections for the first time this December. 

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Lux, Lucis, Luci - A Declension of Lights: Online Auction

Online Auction 9 - 16 December 2020

VENINI

Ceiling light

1950s

Zanfirico glass, brass.

61 cm (24 in.) drop

Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy.

ESTIMATE £6,000 - 8,000

GIANFRANCO FINI b. 1942

‘Programma’ light sculpture

circa 1970

Stainless steel, acrylic.

104.2 x 104.2 x 15.4 cm (41 x 41 x 6 1/8 in.)

Manufactured by New Lamp, Italy.

ESTIMATE £7,000 - 9,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Modena, early 1970s

Acquired from the above by the present owner

LITERATURE

Fulvio Ferrari and Napoleone Ferrari, Luce Lampade 1968-1973: il nuovo design italiano, Turin, 2002,

fig. 102

STILNOVO

Ceiling light

1950s

Brass, glass, fabric cord.

74 cm (29 1/8 in.) drop, 102 cm (40 1/8 in.) diameter

Manufactured by Stilnovo, Milan, Italy.

ESTIMATE £7,000 - 9,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Lombardy

Property from a Private Collection, Turin

VENINI

Table lamp

circa 1952

Sommerso glass, brass, paper and fabric shade.

Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy. Underside of base acid-etched venini/murano/ITALIA. Interior of shade with paper label printed

BONAVOGLIA/Illuminazione d'interni/Torino - Tel. 011/5681991.

ESTIMATE £2,000 - 3,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Turin

STILNOVO

Ceiling light

1950s

Painted brass, brass, painted aluminium.

93 cm (36 5/8 in.) drop

Manufactured by Stilnovo, Milan, Italy.

ESTIMATE £4,000 - 6,000

PROVENANCE

Casa Grimaldi, Naples

TOMASO BUZZI 

Rare ceiling light, model no. 5427

1931-1935

Lattimo glass with gold leaf inclusions, brass.

49 cm (19 1/4 in.) drop, 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.) diameter

Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy. Fixture impressed VENINI/MURANO.

ESTIMATE £4,000 - 6,000

PROVENANCE

Casa Grimaldi, Naples

LITERATURE

Franco Deboni, Venini Glass: Its History, Artists and Techniques, Catalogue 1921-2007, vol. 1, Turin,

2007, The Blue Catalogue (appendix), pl. 145