Historic Italian Design was in the spotlight at PIASA’s sale Italian Design/ Homage to
Lorenzo Burchiellaroat the Espace Rive Gauche on April 15, which brought a total of
€1,999,000.
‘Our sale of Italian Design confirmed market interest in such established names as Gio
Ponti, Gino Sarfati and BBPR’ commented Cédric Morisset, head of the 20th Century
Design Department, after the sale. ‘There was also continued interest in rediscovered
artists like Lorenzo Burchiellaro and Guido Gambone.’
Italian Glass was powerfully represented via a selection of works from the Fontana Arte
workshops and by leading artists. A Fontana dining-table with an impressively thick
glass top, commissioned around 1950, stood out on €130,740 (lot 55).