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Angelo Lelli

Ceiling Light

Lot Closed

March 15, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Angelo Lelli

Ceiling Light


circa 1954

painted aluminum, brass

manufactured by Arredoluce, Monza, Italy

46 1/2 in. (118.1 cm) drop as illustrated

31 in. (78.7 cm) diameter

Sotheby's New York, December 15, 2006, lot 78

Private Collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Roberto Aloi, Esempi di decorazione moderna di tutto il mondo, Illuminazione d'oggi, Milan, 1956, p. 195

Daniele Baroni, L'oggetto -Lampada - Forma e funzione, Milan, 1981, p. 120

Anne Bony, Les années 50, Paris, 1982, p. 257

Piero Castiglione, Chiara Baldacci and Giuseppe Biondo, Lux, Italia 1930-1990, L'architettura della luce, Milan, 1991, p. 59

Alberto Bassi, La luce italiana, design delle lampade 1945-2000, Milan, 2003, p. 77

Charlotte and Peter Fiell, 1000 lights 1879 to 1959, Cologne, 2005, p. 465

Clémence and Didier Krentowski, The Complete Designer's Lights (1950-1990), Zurich, 2012, p. 87


Sotheby's would like to thank Arredoluce for their assistance with the authentication of this lot.