Salvino Marsura Il Calice candle holder

The robust Il Calice candle holder flares into a shape reminiscent of a chalice, lending the piece its name. The iron itself is playfully crumpled and distorted, the surface retaining expressive marks of the forge. 

Signed at the base by the maker, the piece is in good condition, with patination and wear consistent with 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.

H20 W10 D10cm

SM346