Important silver Design Caviar Cooler - .925 silver - GABRIELE DE VECCHI & CORRINA MORANDI-DE VECCHI - Italy - Mid Century Modern

Wonderful, large, rare, solid silver, Italian designed caviar cooler, designed by GABRIELE DE VECCHI & CORRINA MORANDI-DE VECCHI for the firm Saviotti Roma. GABRIELE DE VECCHI (1935/2011) Designer, architect, goldsmith, artist and teacher. CORINNA MORANDI Professor, teacher and architect. His artisan family and the attendance of the art school of Brera are key elements of his education. Thanks to his father, a sculptor and an engraver who experienced the Futurism before the war and industrial design in the post war period, Devecchi was introduced to the art world at a juvenile age. After the end of the high school, he started working at this father’s silver workshop. In 1959 he founded Gruppo T with Giovanni Anceschi, Gianni Colombo and Davide Boriani. He began producing kinetic and programmed artworks, interactive environments, multiples, interventions at the urban scale. Since 1962 he participated actively in the manifestations “Arte programmata” organized by Olivetti in Italy and in the USA. He took part in important events together with other members of Gruppo T, such as the Fourth International Biennial of San Marino “Oltre l’informale” and the various editions of the international exhibitions New Tendencies in Zagreb, Venice, and Paris. Together with the kinetic and luminous environments, he is the author of a memorable installation, which represents the peak and the quintessence of a somatic art of interaction, “Scultura da prendere a calci”. Since 1962 he managed and art directed the family silver workshop. In the same years he started collaborations in other fields of design: furniture, product, exhibition and urban design. In the seventies he participated in many artistic activities that marked a critique to the traditional organization of the art system, such as “Volterra 73” curated by Enrico Crispolti. At the same time Devecchi manifested a strong attention to the social implications of his activity of aesthetic research. The sign unifying the articulations of the different areas that Devecchi practiced is the consideration of ambiguous and unstable things in space and time: not shapes, but processes open to external interventions in order to unforeseen metamorphic continua. Also in the field of design applied to silver and in his projects for artefacts made of gold, porcelain or glass, Devecchi tended to produce objects that are ironical conveyors of ever-changing messages and of dialogical relationships with users. This experimental tension is confirmed in the many years of teaching commitment for the design discipline, which moved from the concrete and perceptual manipulation of materials towards modelled and theoretic information. Victoria and Albert Museum www. devecchi. com the contemporary style and the unique design of De Vecchi Milano 1935, giving new life to one of the most important brands of Italian design. By studying the relationship between the object and the environment, what led to the creation of that De Vecchi style which today is recognized and appreciated all around the world. His works were exhibited in major national and international museums: from the Milan Triennale to the Moma in New York, which granted him the Diploma of Honor. Designing silver does not simply signify designing a form, but a support. Designing silver does not simply signify designing a form, but a support for the reflected images, capable of liberating the material’s infinite and unexpected expressive richness. For years now De Vecchi has innovated the silver ware tradition through its own personal creative design language, based on the reflective qualities of the material itself. Various products have been created over the years that reflect light and the surrounding environment, in such a way that the sequences of the mirror- like images render the objects mobile, in continuous evolution. Over 70 years of activity has created a constellation of recognition, from the Triennale Awards, to a recommendation for the Compasso D’Oro. De Vecchi has taken part in prestigious exhibitions internationally in the ambient of Italian design. In 1997 the Triennale of Milan exhibited ‘The language of Mirrors’, a monographic retrospective of De Vecchi works and the protagonists who contributed to enriching the companies repertoires. oma in New York, which granted him the Diploma of Honor. Will be packaged with care and shipped insured with track and trace by Post nl.