Salvino Marsura Stella Marina candle holder

The Stella Marina candle holder is formed as an iron starfish, its granular surface recalling the ossified structures of marine life. Despite its weight in iron, it appears as though momentarily lifted from the seabed – still holding the memory of movement. 

The iron retains a natural patination, with wear consistent with age. It is signed by the artist.

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.

H6 W20 D19cm

SM347