Design
Design
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.