Albano Poli for Poliarte

ALBANO POLI for Poliarte.
Wall lamp, c. 1970.
Metal and glass.
In perfect condition.
Measurements: 30 x 28 x 15.
Albano Poli studied at the art school where the Artist Casarini taught, and it was thanks to the latter that he began his love of stained glass, working first with Maestro Veronese Ballardini and then, at the age of 22, he began to work with Maestro Cavallini, a partner with whom he founded "Arte Vetraria Veronese" in 1957. In 1968, the paths of the two partners diverged: with great foresight and precise vision, Albano Poli founded POLIARTE, which immediately imposed itself on the Made in Italy furniture design scene and, in the same year, received its first prize at the XXXIV Venice Biennale. In 1970, as confirmation of the success of POLI ARTE lamps as true works of art and not only as an element of decoration and design, Albano Poli received a gold medal at the XXII International Crafts Fair in Munich. The award consolidated an already established market, the German one, but it was also an important springboard for the Italian and international market. An important example is undoubtedly the interest shown by Dior at the Milan Furniture Fair, which in those same years saw its first major expansion and where POLIARTE was present with its lamps: the glass cube became the symbol of a philosophy and soon of the company itself, identifying a clear and unmistakable style, able to impose itself in a complex panorama, thanks precisely to the art that distinguished POLIARTE's production throughout the 70s.
POLI ARTE is and will forever remain a piece of the history of the art of light, a history that illuminates the present, a living root that continues to give new life to the thriving reality that is the artistic atelier PROGETTO ARTE POLI.