AN ITALIAN SILVER WINE COOLER AND ICE BUCKET

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AN ITALIAN SILVER WINE COOLER AND ICE BUCKET
DESIGNED BY GIOTTO STOPPINO FOR CLETO MUNARI, 1989

Consisting of an ice bucket and a champagne bucket, each of shaped circular form, with circular cut-out handles and hand hammered surface, the ice bucket with tongs and removable pierced strainer, each marked under base--champagne bucket 9in. (22.9cm.) high
(77oz. 10dwt., 2411.2gr.) (4)

Lot Essay

Giotto Stoppino (b. 1926) has designed furniture for Bernini, Kartell and Acerbis. In 1972, he participated in a group exhibition "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. For further biography, see Oscar Tusquets Blanca, editor, The International Design Yearbook, 5, New York, 1990.