£5,000
MODERN MADE | Modern Art & Post-War Design | 636
Auction: 30 April 2021 at 11:00 BST
iron and brass
Provenance: A Private European Collection of Design
Literature:
G. Gramigna, F. Irace, Osvaldo Borsani, Rome, 1992, p. 185 (similar example illustrated);
G. Bosoni, Osvaldo Borsani architetto, designer, imprenditore, Milan, 2018, p. 223 (examples illustrated in Borsani's villa in Varedo).
Borsani used firedogs of this design in two projects. The first was in his own villa in Varedo (1943-45), where he positioned them in the grand ceramic fireplace by Lucio Fontana (1948), and the other was Casa Casò (1947-48), an apartment in Milan.