Description: Two silver plated "Giselle" bud vases/candle holders by Lino Sabattini, Italy marked on front near base. Set of 10" and 12".


History: Lino Sabattini born in Correggio (Reggio Emilia) 23 September 1925 as a simple and hardworking people. While still a child, his family moved to Blevio, a small cluster of houses on Lake Como. And 'different from other boys: games prefer the long walks in the mountains ending with dips in the lake. A passion for music and the theater. Just fourteen finds work in Como in a trivial brassware shop. It 's not a random choice. Soon it happens in his hands a number of "Domus", the magazine of Gio 'Ponti. It becomes his textbook, his Bible, his school by correspondence. In the workshop of brass objects he makes a living, but also learn the metalworking technique. In an old mill of the Lake meets Rolando Hettner, a German national who plasma beautiful ceramics, paints and reads many books. The man of the old mill becomes the exhilarating experience of his spare time, the master of existential tensions that encourages artistic breaking solutions. Sabattini now thirty years old leaves Blevio and moved to Milan, where implanted, in a basement, a small workshop with the tools essential to his work. Links with "Domus" intensify. Now he knows also young architects, students, pupils of Gio 'Ponti. One of these leads to the master some object in metal created by the young artisan. One day Bridges looks at her door. Look, touch, from the 'idea to be developed. They spend only three days and Sabattini finishes the job. Bridges he enthuses. So begins' the friendship marked by milestones: Milan Triennale, the Venice Biennale, the world's best publications in journals, personal in Italy and abroad. In 1956 Sabattini creates sensation with the prototype service "Como" in the exposition of Paris "Forms and ideas of Italy". From 1958 to 1963 he worked in Paris and Milan for the famous house Christofle trying in vain to wipe out worn soulless productions. In 1964 he moved to Bregnano, a small town between Como and Milan. Become entrepreneur of his ideas, of his sensibility ', that its diversity' that could find no room in the contemporary business world. So he begins 'his solitary adventure that is realized nell'Argenteria Sabattini, which creates the most' clear and Venuste silver forms.

Provenance: Lorber Estate, Palm Beach, FL


Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 1.875" | Height(in) = 14 | Width(in) = 6 | Depth(in) = 6

Size of Artwork(in): 12 x 2" Largest


Artist Name: Giselle / Sabattini


Medium: Silverplated Metal


Circa: Circa 1975

Very good condition. No damage.