Pietro Chiesa
Pair of "Luminator" Floor Lamps
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Pietro Chiesa
1892-1948
Pair of "Luminator" Floor Lamps
designed circa 1933, executed circa 1960
model no. 0556C
produced by Fontana Arte, Milan, Italy
lacquered metal, brass
height 74 ½ in.; width 12 ¾ in.
189.2 cm; 32.4 cm
Piasa, Paris, November 3, 2022, lot 33;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Domus, no. 115, July 1937, p. 16 (for an advertisement)
"Due Appartamenti in Milano," Domus, no. 116, August 1937, p. 7 (for a related example)
"Documenti Della Produzione Italiana," Domus, no. 131, November 1938, p. 65 (for the model)
Domus, no. 252, November 1950, p. 64 (for Gio Ponti's description of the "Luminator" model as the most "pure" floor lamp in the history of design)
Quaderni Fontana Arte 4, Illuminazione Arredamento Cristalli d'Arte, sales catalogue, Milan, 1962, pp. 18 and 65 (for the model)
Quaderni Fontana Arte 6, Illuminazione Arredamento Cristalli d'Arte, sales catalogue, Milan, 1960s, p. 100 (for the model)
Laura Falconi, Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente, Milan, 1998, pp. 57 and 70
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Domus 1940-1949, Volume II, Cologne, 2008, p. 475
Franco Deboni, Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Turin, 2012, nos. 95-96
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