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Makers/Designers/Artists
Gaetano Pesce
Rag wall lamp
Cast hard resin, steel and wood
H. 86 x W. 47 x D. 20 cm
Fish Design New York, 1994
It was in 1764 that the history of the Baccarat glassworks took off, thanks to the initiative of the Bishop of Metz and Monseigneur de Montmorency-Laval. The Sainte-Anne glassmakers settled in the…
Gino Sarfatti was born in Venice in 1912 in a well-off family. His first interest was for aeronautics but his father’s shipping company bankruptcy in 1935 made him follow another path. In 1939 he…
Styles
The creations released in the 70s were often created in the late 60s. The protest developed in the 1960s, pushes the 1970s into soft with the creation of soft seats and poufs surrounded by sweet pop…
The design of the 50's
During the war 39-45 the chemistry experienced a tremendous acceleration by the industrial development of new products whose research was still embryonic; This will…
1889: the crowd that rushes to the great universal exhibition of Paris discovers, amazed, the Eiffel Tower. But in front of the iron lady, it is a certain Emile Gallé, already rewarded in 1878, who…
Born of imposing concrete buildings, Brutalism extends over the years to design and art. A world where raw materials are expressed through clean lines and geometric shapes.
Born to…
Material
As its name does not indicate, the crystal is a glass, that is to say a non-crystalline solid, rich in lead, whose mass concentration must be between 40% and 24% to be entitled to the "Crystal'…
Porcelain is a kind of ceramic that is distinguished by its material and its cooking temperature. In ceramics, there are two types of porcelain: soft porcelain and hard porcelain. Soft porcelain…
Already used during ancient Greece to copy the bronze works, marble is one of the noble materials of sculpture. There are numerous marble deposits in Europe, as in Italy, where Carrara marble,…
Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin known by men since the 4th millennium BCE. Originally mastered by the peoples of antiquity, it became the noble material of Greek sculpture and Chinese ritual…