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Max Ingrand

"Dahlia" Chandelier

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Ingrand

"Dahlia" Chandelier


circa 1954

model no. 1563

produced by Fontana Arte, Milan

brass, glass

16½ in. (41.3 cm) drop

51 in. (129.5 cm) diameter

Phillips Hong Kong, May 28, 2017, lot 49
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Domus, no. 298, September 1954, n.p. (for an advertisement of the model)
Fontana Arte Illuminazione, sales catalogue, Italy, 1960s, p. 25
"Lastre di vetro e cristallo," Vitrum, no. 100, p. 38; no. 147, January-February 1965, p. 32
Andrea Branzi and Michele De Lucchi, eds., Il Design Italiano Degli Anni ’50, Milan, 1985, p. 231, fig. 804
Laura Falconi, Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Milan, 1998, p. 109
Franco Deboni, Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Turin, 2012, figs. 23 and 308