Lot 159
Paolo Buffa (Italian 1903-1970)
Rare Wall Mounted Lattice Shelf, designed 1930
Auction: 23 October 2020 from 10:00 BST
Description
manufactured by Paolo Lietti & Figli, Cantù, walnut
Dimensions
133cm high, 93cm across, 9cm deep (52.3in high, 36.6in across, 3.5in deep)
Footnote
Sold with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Paolo Buffa Archive, dated 18 August 2020.
Literature:
L'ambiente moderno in Italia, Domus S.A. Editoriale, Milano, 1930, p.35;
I. De Guttry, M.P. Maino, Il mobile deco italiano, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1988, p.103, fig.9;
Roberto Rizzi, I mobili di Paolo Buffa, 2001, p.13 for a larger example of this model.
The larger version with three shelves was designed for and exhibited at the Esposizione di Monza of 1930, and a version of this model was sold alongside a corresponding console at Christie's London, Thinking Italian, 17 October 2018, Lot 4.
An almost identical example to this model was also sold at the Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 April 2005, Lot 188.