Salvino Marsura Mantide religiosa coat hook

This sculptural wall coat hook is named after the praying mantis, and comes complete with spiked hooks and long thin stems that call to mind the insect’s elongated silhouette.

The piece is in good condition. It features some coloured pigment and 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.

H77 W68 D29cm 

SM69