Single Brutalist Wall Scone by Marcello Fantoni, 1960s

A Brutalist wall lamp designed by renowned designer and artist Marcello Fantoni and produced in Italy. Beautiful sculptured torch cut steel with orange tinted glass which gives a nice warm glow. In nice restored condition.

Marcello Fantoni

Marcello Fantoni was a Florentine artist who specialized in ceramics. He studied at the Art Institute in Florence, where Libero Andreotti and Bruno Innocenti were his sculpting professors and Gianni Vagnetti was his figurative art professor. Fantoni began to work as a ceramist in 1934, opening his factory in 1936. After the Second World War, he became very successful, and his works are held in some of the world’s most important museums (from the USA to Japan).

From the collection of La contessa arreda