Moritz vase by Lino Sabattini for Argenteria Sabattini, 1990s. Silver metal vase with glass base.
Lino Sabattini was born in Correggio (Reggio Emilia) on 23 September 1925 to simple and hard-working people. At just fourteen he found work in Como in a shop selling banal brass objects. It's not a random choice. Soon he comes across an issue of Domus, Gio Ponti's magazine: it becomes his textbook, his Bible, his correspondence school. In the brass workshop he earns his living but he also learns the metalworking technique. Sabattini, now thirty years old, leaves Blevio to move to Milan where he sets up, in a basement, a small laboratory with the tools essential to his work. The ties with Domus intensify. Now he also meets young architects, students of Gio Ponti; one of these brings the master some metal object created by the young craftsman. One day Ponti shows up at his door: he looks, he touches, he gives him an idea to develop. Only three days pass and Sabattini finishes the work, Ponti is enthusiastic about it. Thus begins the friendship relationship marked by fundamental stages. From 1958 to 1963 he worked in Paris and Milan for the famous Christofle house, trying in vain to sweep away worn-out soulless productions. In 1964 he moved to Bregnano, a small town between Como and Milan. He becomes an entrepreneur of his ideas, of his sensitivity, of that diversity of his that found no space in the contemporary productive world. Thus began his solitary adventure which took shape in Argenteria Sabattini, where he created the clearest and most beautiful shapes in silver. He died in 2016.
Excellent condition with light and negligible traces of time and use.
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