Salvino Marsura Desiderio oval mirror

The Desiderio oval mirror is framed in hand-forged iron finished in a soft blue patina, with reed-like forms looping around the top and bottom of the glass. The gently reaching details echo the sense of longing suggested by the title of the piece.

The piece is in good condition, with patination true to its age.

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.

H65 W51 D12cm

SM318