Salvino Marsura Forged mirror VII

Circles of iron, some marked with pointed-star makings, cluster at the top and bottom of this large round iron mirror. Their arrangement forms a soft ogee at each end, lending the piece a balanced symmetry. 

The iron frame features patination true to its age, and a new mirror has been fitted, treated with foxing by an artisan.  

Salvino Marsura (1938-2020) was an artisan metalworker. After learning his craft in the dynamic workshop of sculptor and ‘iron poet’ Toni Benetton, he spent more than 60 years producing sculpture, furniture, objects and memorials in his hometown of Treviso, Italy.

Marsura’s ironwork art and furniture relishes in the manual aesthetic of the forge, giving voice to the raw metal and the processes of its manipulation including sweltering heat, hammering, bending and welding. His distinctive hand marries elements of brutalism and traditional decorative arts.

H90 W64 D3cm

SM011