Vintage 1960's floor lamp, model Medusa by Alfredo Barbini. Aluminium/Chrome/Glass - Tweedehands

€ 3.285,00

The shade is made of so called Scavo glass, translated “excavation”. A technique involving the application, to the surface of an object, of substances that, when heated to about 1470°F (800°C), fuse and create an effect similar to weathering, thereby imitating glass from an archeological excavation. His works are characterized by mid-century modern minimalism and an imaginative, elegant yet witty aesthetic. Works by Alfredo Barbini are part of various museums as MoMa NY. Alfredo Barbini, a glass artist born in 1912 on the islands of Murano in the lagoon of Venice, Italy, was one of Murano's leading figures of the twentieth century. His parents were members of families which had been prominent in the glassmaking industry on Murano for generations as glassblowers and beadmakers. Barbini began his long career in 1925 at the age of 13, working in the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso factory. In 1929 he joined Cristalleria di Venezia e Murano as a master glassblower. He left that firm in 1932 for

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