HAND-THROWN ALVINO BAGNI TABLE LAMP

A ceramic table lamp assembled from an abstract geometric lamp base created in Italy by master potter Alvino Bagni. Made of hand-turned chamotte earthenware, it has been glazed in matt black with a glossy geometric wax resist décor on top, consisting of quartered circular elements and diamond shapes in shades of blue, purple, green, and yellow. ALVINO BAGNI (1919–2009) was born in 1919 in the quiet hamlet of Lastra a Signa in the environs of Florence in Tuscany. His boyhood and adolescence were spent without his father, who, as a communist, had been exiled under Italian fascism. Young Bagni took an early interest in pottery, a regionally important industry. He studied the basics of drawing and clay modeling under the tutelage of sculptor Torello Santini (1875–1946) and took a job in the workshop of Arnaldo Pugi’s ceramics factory in nearby Ponte a Signa. Bagni had a stint at Bitossi Ceramiche for a few years in nearby Montelupo Fiorentino, where famed ceramist Aldo Londi (1911–2003) t