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1970’s “Monaco” Murano Glass Table lamp with original shade designed by Luciano Vistosi
Luciano Vistosi came up through Vetreria Vistosi, the family glassworks his relatives had run on Murano since the turn of the century, and used that inherited mastery of hand-blown glass to push the island's centuries-old craft into a distinctly postwar idiom — sculptural, organic forms that treated the shade itself as the source of a lamp's character, not just its cover. Working alongside contemporaries like Gae Aulenti during Murano's mid-century design renaissance, he became known for pieces — among them the Neverino and Nevodo series — that let the glass diffuse and color light rather than simply contain it. The "Monaco," with its original shade intact, carries that same sensibility: a lamp conceived as a single sculptural gesture in glass, light included.
A rare, complete example from one of Murano's defining postwar designers — form and function blown as one.
$3,500
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