Salvino Marsura Chiodi chandelier

This wrought iron chandelier features a series of delicately balanced branches. The bowed arms, topped with chiodi – or nails – bloom with light fixtures in the shape of tender blossoms.

The piece is in good condition, with patination and wear consistent with age and use. It has been recently rewired and PAT tested to UK standards.

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.

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