The big names in modern furniture closed an exciting auction semester with a total sold of € 750.000.
The 20th century Decorative Arts and Design sale keeps its international footprint, with various bidders from the United States, China, Mexico, Belgium, Holland, France, England and Germany, denoting a marked expansion of the public. An eclectic proposal of genres and styles, coming from prestigious private collections, as in the case of the highly sought-after vases by the artist Yoichi Ohira, who with his unique pieces for technical virtuosity and poetic inspiration once again conquers the podium of top awards: the cobalt blue vase with star-shaped murrine in lattimo (lot 136, € 32,500), the opaque brown one, with murrine inserts in crystal glass, green, red, black and blue (lot 134, € 20,000) and the pumpkin-shaped vase with vertical lattimo canes and opaque red, with large red and burgundy murrine inserts (lot 133, € 16,250).
Lot 136 Yoichi Ohira, Vase with cylindrical body and cylindrical collar.
Execution by Livio Serena e Giacomo Barbini, Murano, 2003.
Credits Studio Amendolagine Barracchia for Il Ponte Casa d'Aste.
Sold: € 32.500
Lot 134 Yoichi Ohira, Cylindrical vase without collar.
Execution by Livio Serena e Giacomo Barbini, Murano, 2004.
Credits Studio Amendolagine Barracchia for Il Ponte Casa d'Aste.
Sold: € 20.000
Lot 133 Yoichi Ohira, Pumpkin-shaped vase with cylindrical collar.
Execution by Livio Serena e Giacomo Barbini, Murano, 2002.
Credits Studio Amendolagine Barracchia for Il Ponte Casa d'Aste.
Sold: € 16.250
Turning point during the third round, the exceptional hammer price of the small resin cube by Enzo Mari (lot 419, € 16,250 - world record for this series of works).
Lot 419 Enzo Mari, Resin cube containing four overlapping resin parallelepipeds model "3018D".
Produced by Danese, Milan, 1950s/1960s. (7x7x7 cm.)
Sold: € 16.250
Excellent sales for the elliptical mirror model "1608" by Max Ingrand (lot 156, € 12,500), the ceramic sculpture by Angelo Biancini dedicated to "Atteone divorato dai cani" (lot 27, € 8,750), and again, Carlo Scarpa with the 1973 "Cornaro" model sofa (lot 54, € 8,750), Mario Ceroli with the table inspired by the "Rosa dei Venti" (lot 56, € 8,750) and the vases by Flavio Poli (lot 121, € 8,125) and Fulvio Bianconi (lot 106, € 7,500).
Lot 156 Max Ingrand, Elliptical mirror model "1608".
Produced by Fontana Arte, Milan, 1950s/1960s.
Sold: € 12.500
Lot 27 Angelo Biancini, "Atteone divorato dai cani" Sculpture.
Manufacture of Società Ceramica Italiana, Laveno, 1956.
Sold: € 8.750
Lot 56 Mario Ceroli, "Rosa dei venti" Table.
Produced by Poltronova, Florence, 1973.
Raw Russian pine wood, glass top. Fire-marked "Ceroli - Poltronova".
Sold: € 8.750
Lastly, an intense and exciting competition for the Venini mirror (lot 105, € 6,875), for the peculiar seat/sculpture of the Libidarch studio (lot 63, € 5,625), the sofa model "Tramonto a New York" by Gaetano Pesce (lot 62, € 4,750) and the dormeuse model "Century" by Andrea Branzi (lot 66, € 3,800).
Lot 105 Venini Novecento mirror with twisted frame in green blown bubble glass,
structure in nickel-plated metal with a pair of lamps with crossed cornucopias.
Murano, 1930ca. (50x70 cm.)
Sold: € 6.875
Lot 62 Gaetano Pesce Sofa model "Tramonto a New York".
Produced by Cassina, Meda, 1980.
Upholstery in red fabric for the back-sun and in crème fabric
with squares in shades of beige for the seats-skyscrapers. (232x128x102 cm.)
Sold: € 4.750
Lot 66 Dormeuse model "Century".
Produced by Memphis, Milan, drawing form 1982.
Sold: € 3.800