On Wednesday, November 5, PIASA will present three exceptional sales, brought together in a single exhibition at 118, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
• Friday, October 31, 2025: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
• Saturday, November 12, 2025: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
• Monday, November 3, 2025: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 4, 2025: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Three voices. Three ways of sculpting matter.
One guiding principle: the gesture.
• Design by Andrea Salvetti — Nature turned into art
A retrospective dedicated to Andrea Salvetti (1967–2017), a singular figure of Italian design, sculptor of the living and alchemist of matter.
More than a sale, it is a journey — twenty-five years of creation gathered for the first time at public auction: unique pieces, prototypes, historically exhibited works cast in aluminium, bronze or brass, woven nests, tables carved from tree trunks, metal cacti, furniture-sculptures… Every piece comes directly from the artist’s studio.
“The humanity, talent and genius of Andrea Salvetti are so powerful that he managed to transform wood into metal and nature into art.”
Philippe Starck
Andrea Salvetti collaborated with major galleries and institutions — Dilmos, Nilufar, Avant-Scène — and was exhibited in Milan, Miami, Art Basel, the Triennale and the Venice Biennale, where performance and sharing were already central to his language.
The works in this sale reflect his instinctive and poetic approach: design becomes landscape, the materials seem still inhabited by sap, fire or wind.
• Ceramics by Bitossi — Works from private collections
This sale brings together around thirty lots produced by Bitossi Ceramiche, an emblematic manufacturer of post-war Italian design.
The pieces presented — mainly lamps and vases — embody the fertile dialogue between craftsmanship and contemporary creation.
From Aldo Londi, a visionary who transformed Bitossi into a laboratory of colours and materials, to Ettore Sottsass and Arik Levy, ceramics becomes experimentation: deep glazes, engraved surfaces, limited editions.
Each work is conceived as an autonomous, sculptural object, where the precision of the gesture meets the artist’s freedom.
“Aldo Londi paved the way for the forms and colours that would go on to transform global design.” — Ettore Sottsass
• Dominique Pouchain — Ceramic sculptor
Born in Dieulefit into a family of ceramists, Dominique Pouchain has forged his own vocabulary: compact forms, animal silhouettes, deep surfaces worked with oxide washes — that black which absorbs light rather than reflecting it.
Clay is not shaped to represent; it is sculpted to embody.
The sale gathers forty key works from his vocabulary — from monumental animal sculptures to console-sculptures combining ceramics and wood, and functional pieces (lamps, wall works), along with a selection of bronzes and preparatory drawings.
