ALVINO BAGNI ‘TIRLI’ DÉCOR TABLE LAMPS

This monumental pair of Alvino Bagni table lamps for the importer Raymor is finished with an outstanding abstract drip glaze in muted shades of green with a subtle lavender tinge.  Bagni's signature 'Tirli' decor of impressed circles and dots adorns the collar, chest, and foot.  Epic. ALVINO BAGNI was born in Lastra a Signa in the environs of Florence, in 1919.  His boyhood and adolescence were spent without his father, who, as a communist, had been exiled under fascism.  A young Bagni learned the basics of drawing and clay modeling under the tutelage of artist and sculptor Torello Santini.  His interest in ceramics, a locally important industry, grew, and he found work at Arnaldo Pugi’s furnace in Ponte a Signa.  Following WWII, Pugi helped Bagni finance the opening of his own studio, BAGNI CERAMICHE, where several family members were employed—including his wife Gina, who would work alongside Bagni throughout his career.  3,500 elephant-head plates bearing the slogan “I like Ike” wer