Prototype "Ad Arte" Candlesticks Inspired by UGO LA PIETRA, Italy
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Prototype "Ad Arte" candlesticks in painted red bronze. Produced in Italy in limited edition(not numbered/not signed) in silver and gold. The red never went into production, only few prototypes were made in this color.
YEAR: 1989
COUNTRY: Italy
DIMENSIONS: H 7in x Dm 1.94in, H 18cm x Dm 5cm
AVAILABLE: Set of 4
MANUFACTURER:
DESIGNER: Inspired by Ugo La Pietra
MATERIAL: Bronze ( painted )
CONDITION: Excellent
COLOR: Red
PRODUCTION: Prototype/Out of production
UGO LA PIETRA was a main figure in the foundation of Italian radical design. Difficult to summarize, he’s a Jazz Clarinet player, a painter, a sculptor, a designer of furniture, an architect and a curator. He has worked with Ettore Sottsass, Hans Hollein, Archizoom and Super studio. He was a founding member of the “Global Tools” group in 1973 and organized the first exhibition of radical design in 1974. Awarded many times, including the Compasso d’Oro in 1979, he was also editor of the Domus magazine in the 1980s. In 1988 he published the first book about the work of Gio Ponti. He’s been exhibited over 100 times: at the MOMA in 1972, many times at the Venice Biennale in the 1970s, at Milan Triennale in 1972, at the Centre Pompidou and more.
Prototype "Ad Arte" Candlesticks Inspired by UGO LA PIETRA, Italy
Set of 4 "Ad Arte" prototype Candlesticks inspired by Ugo La Pietra.
Produced in limited edition (not numbered/not signed) in silver and gold.
The red never went into production, few prototypes were made in this color.
UGO LA PIETRA
Handles by Ugo La Pietra for "Mobile Infinito" collection for Studio Alchimia, 1981
(Photo Courtesy of Ugo La Pietra Archives)
"Il Mobile Infinito" collection catalog for Studio Alchimia, 1981
UGO LA PIETRA
Artist, architect, designer
Born in 1938 in Bussi sul Tirino (Pescara)
Native of Arpino (Frosinone)
Lives and works in Milano
An architect by training, he is an artist, filmmaker, editor, musician, cartoonist and teacher. He has been defining himself as a researcher in communication systems and in visual arts since 1960, moving simultaneously in the worlds of art and design.
A tireless experimenter, he has crossed different currents (from Informalism and Conceptual Art to Narrative Art and artist’s cinema) and used multiple mediums, conducting research that were embodied in the theory of the “Disequilibrating System” – autonomous expression within Radical Design – and in important sociological themes such as “The Telematic Home” (MoMA, New York, 1972 – Fiera di Milano, 1983), “Real Space / Virtual Space” (Triennale di Milano 1979, 1992), “The eclectic Home” (Abitare il Tempo, 1990), “Beach Culture” (Centro Culturale Cattolica, 1985/95). He has transmitted his work through numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, and he has curated several exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano, the Venice Biennale, the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, the FRAC Centre in Orléans, the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca, the Fondazione Mudima in Milano and the Museo MA*GA in Gallarate. He has always critically maintained the humanistic, significant and territorial components of design through his works and objects, as well as his work in teaching, theory and publishing.
SOURCE: Ugo La Pietra Archives
