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Max Ingrand Coffee Table , Mirrored Optical Effect

Creator: Max Ingrand
Offered by: L'Art De Vivre

Description
MAX INGRAND ( 1908-1969 ) for FONTANA ARTE, ca. 1960
Widely acknowledged as one of Max Ingrand's masterpieces, demonstrating his groundbreaking innovations in design glass, this table features a richly colored, mirrored, deeply concave glass bowl, surmounted by a flat clear glass top, to create wondrous and ever changing optical effects. Created at the onset of the 1960's, the design anticipates the arrival of Op-Art, and presents a coherent design that absorbs and visually reinterprets its environment in magical reflections.
The glass is set in a round blackened iron base with solid brass accents, the rounded corners echoing the changing reflections in the glass.
31.5 Ø x 14.5 H
Ref: Quaderni Fontana Arte Arredamento Catalog 2 , 1961 p. 8

More Information

Documentation:	Ample Provenance
Origin:	Italy
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Glass. Concave Mirrored Glass, Iron, brass
Condition:	Good. Consistent with age and use
Creation Date:	1950s
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Collectible Design, Mid Century
Incollect Reference #:	681919

Dimensions

H.	14.5 in;	Diam.	31.5 in;
H.	36.83 cm;	Diam.	80.01 cm;

Message from Seller:

Established on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1989, L'Art de Vivre champions pioneering French and Italian midcentury design, with an emphasis on exceptional and distinctive lighting. Its carefully selected collection spans the postwar period to the present day, highlighting rare and exciting masterpieces by Fontana Arte, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Gio Ponti, Venini, Veronese, Stilnovo, Dominique, Jacques Adnet, Maxime Old, and Genet Michon, as well as collaborations with contemporary designers