Fine Design
15 January 2025
Adolf Loos (Brno, 10 December 1870 - Kalksburg, 23 August 1933) was an Austrian architect, considered one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He was not only a forerunner of the work of 20th century masters such as Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, but a true beacon in his time for his originality and his great autonomy from his contemporaries.
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9 June 2024
The most important semi-annual live auction in Cambi Auction House's number one department returns with the most prized Designer Design. A careful selection of rare and unpublished elements and objects of furniture, lighting, masterpieces signed by the most famous masters of Italian and international design.
Absolute protagonist of the auction and catalog cover, is lot 33, a rare chair by Carlo Mollino made for the Gallery of the Lattes Publishing House in Turin. This extraordinary work, dated 1951, features a curved and polished walnut plywood frame, resinflex technical fabric and brass metal details. Only four examples of this chair exist, with an archival number at the Casa Mollino Museum: CM 323-4. This chair is not only an example of high craftsmanship, but also a historic piece that embodies the innovation and elegance of postwar Italian design (Estimate: €80,000.00 - 120,000.00).
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12 June 2023
An architect, designer, photographer, writer, pilot, and skier from Turin, Carlo Mollino was a multifaceted and out-of-the-box visionary artist who, thanks to his research and his continuous curiosity and experimentation, marked the history of architecture and design in Italy.
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9 May 2023
The Design Genius of Paolo Buffa
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Among the protagonists of the Live Auction "Design Properties," scheduled for Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at the Milan headquarters of Cambi Casa d'Aste: the flair and design ability of Paolo Buffa (1903-1970), a Milanese designer and architect active between the 1930s and 1960s, known for his design capable of blending neoclassical style with Art Deco motifs and modernist principles.
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18 February 2016
It is no coincidence that the world record of auction sale of a piece by Gio Ponti has occurred with a single piece, refined and important, such as the low table of the ancient collection of paintings of Palazzo Contini Bonacossi, proposed by Cambi during the last Design auction last December: the style and the […]
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