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Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Omai Vase Table Lamp, Italy, 1956

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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Rare Chandelier, Italy 1950s
    By Max Ingrand, Fontana Arte
    Located in Naples, IT
    Rare, unique, important pendant lamp variant of mod. 1849 with three spheres, brass frame and satin-finish glass shade. Manufactured by Fontana Arte, Italy, c. 1950.
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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Model 1941 Sconce, Italy, 1950s
    By Max Ingrand, Fontana Arte
    Located in Naples, IT
    White diffuser glass and satin-finished and curved coloured crystal and brass frame.
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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Flush Mount Mod.1990, Italy 1960s
    By Max Ingrand, Fontana Arte
    Located in Naples, IT
    Rare Max Ingrand ceiling lamp for Fontana Arte, 1960. Painted metal, brass, frosted glass, glass. As typical of glass of the time it has a green ed...
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    Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Flush Mount

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  • Gae Aulenti for Fontana Arte "Giova" Table Lamp, Italy 1960s
    By Fontana Arte, Gae Aulenti
    Located in Naples, IT
    Large table lamp designed by Gae Aulenti for Fontana Arte in 1964. Production 1960s - First series Structure consisting of large globe in colorless glass containing another globe in ...
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    Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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  • Fontana Arte "3247TA" Table Lamp, Italy, 1950s
    By Fontana Arte
    Located in Naples, IT
    "3247" is a floor lamp, derived from the classic table lamp called "3247TA", originally designed by FontanaArte in 1954, produced by Fontana Arte, characterised by a nickel-plated me...
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    Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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  • Ben Swildens For Fontana Arte “Uovo” or Egg Table Lamp, Italy 1970s
    By Fontana Arte, Ben Swildens
    Located in Naples, IT
    Uovo' table lamp, an elegant shape made of satinised white blown glass, which uniformly diffuses a warm and enveloping light.
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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Omai Vase Table Lamp, Italy, 1956
    By Max Ingrand
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Max Ingrand project, 1954, for Fontana Arte, Italy, white satin glass, small brass seal in the vase, metal base, white lacquered. Best known for its elegant and innovative vintage lighting pieces, the Milan-based firm Fontana Arte pioneered one of the key features of 20th-century and contemporary Italian design: the union of artistry and industry wrought by partnerships between creative talents — chiefly architects — and entrepreneurial businesses. Fontana Arte is further distinguished by having had as artistic director, in succession, four of Italy’s most inventive modernist designers: Giò Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, French transplant Max Ingrand and Gae Aulenti. The bread and butter of the glassmaking company that Luigi Fontana founded in 1881 was plate-glass panels for the construction industry. In 1930, Fontana met Ponti — then the artistic director of the Richard-Ginori ceramics workshop and the editor of the influential magazine Domus— at a biannual design exhibition that became the precursor to today’s Milan Design Triennale, and the two hatched an idea for a furniture and housewares firm. Fontana Arte was incorporated in 1932 with Ponti as its chief of design. He contributed several lamps that remain among the company’s signature works, including the orb-atop-cone Bilia table lamp and the 0024 pendant — a stratified hanging sphere. The following year, Fontana Arte partnered with the influential Milan studio glassmaker and retailer Pietro Chiesa, who took over as artistic director. Chiesa’s designs for lighting — as well as for tables and items including vases and ashtrays — express an appreciation for fluidity and simplicity of line, as seen in works such as his flute-shaped Luminator floor lamp and the 1932 Fontana table — an arched sheet of glass that is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Six years after Chiesa’s 1948 death, the École des Beaux Arts–trained Max Ingrand took over as head of design at Fontana Arte. Ingrand brought a similarly expressive formal sensibility to wares such as lamps and mirrors, but he also had a masterful eye for the manipulation of glass surfaces — whether they be cut, frosted, acid-etched or sand-blasted. His classic design is the Fontana table lamp of 1954, which has a truncated cone shade and curved body, both of which are made of pure, chic white-frosted glass. Following Ingrand, the often-audacious Italian architect Gae Aulenti served as the company’s artistic director from 1979 to 1996, and while she generally insisted that furnishings take second place aesthetically to architecture, she made an exception for Fontana Arte pieces such as the Tavolo con Ruote series of glass coffee and dining tables on wheels...
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    Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte pair of two Patinated Brass table lamps Italy 1956
    By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
    Located in Almelo, NL
    Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte pair of two patinated Brass table lamps Italy 1956. Max Ingrand designed a pair of exceptional table lamps for Fontana Arte in Italy in 1956. These lam...
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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Saucer Table Lamp
    By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
    Located in New York, NY
    Brass and glass 'Saucer' table lamp by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, with ball joint articulation and frosted glass.
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    Vintage 1950s Italian Space Age Table Lamps

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  • Max Ingrand Table Lamp #2278 for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1960
    By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
    Located in Amsterdam, NL
    An old version of the #2278 with green interior shade. The brass has oxidised very nicely over the years. A heavy and stately table lamp with very well chosen proportions and interes...
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    Vintage 1960s Italian Table Lamps

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  • Rare One of Two Table Lamps by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, 1955-1956, Italy
    By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
    Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
    A rare table lamp designed by Max Ingrand and manufactured by Fontana Arte, 1955-1956, Milano, Italy. While running his own studio in Paris, Max Ingrand became in 1954 artistic direc...
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  • Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte XL Table Lamp, 1970s
    By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
    Located in HEVERLEE, BE
    Midcentury table lamp in white glass designed by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte in the 1950s - Model 1854 This one is a vintage example and we would date it around 1970s. This la...
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