Pietro Chiesa Furniture

Beautiful brass chandelier attributed to Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte. Each single brass arm blooms on the top and falls down to be joined with brass rings to the other arms. The ...

This Mid-Century glass and brass chandelier was designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte in the 1940s. The Italian Art Deco designer Pietro Chiesa was born in Milan in 1892 in a family of artists originally from Ticino, Switzerland. After his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, he completed an apprenticeship at the studio of the furniture designer Giovan Battista Giannotti; having gathered enough security and experience, Chiesa opened his studio in 1921 under the name Bottega di Pietro Chiesa. Known above all for his work as a glassmaker, Chiesa presented his work for the first time in 1925 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. In 1932 his studio joined Fontana Arte, the legendary Italian manufacture of lighting and glass objects founded by Gio Ponti and Luigi Fontana. Chiesa becomes the company's artistic director, and over the years designs numerous models for Fontana Arte, including lamps, windows, tables, and artistic decorative objects. Among the most noteworthy pieces signed by the designer, we mention the Fontana table (1932), made in a single beam of molded clear glass, the Cartoccio vase (1932), and the Luminator lacquered brass floor lamp...

Elegant brass and glass chandelier by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, signed in the little brass detail FX Milano.

Pietro Chiesa Fontana Arte Lampadario Design Modernariato 1960’s. Struttura in ottone, diffusori in Vetro spesso. L’articolo è in buone condizioni conservative, segni del tempo pre...

Elegant and stylish Italian mid-century chandelier of Pietro Chiesa per Fontana Arte, from the 1940s. Two lights, polished brass structure, green aluminum lamp...

Elegant lantern designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, made in Italy in the 1940s. Black lacquered aluminium structure with brass finishes, conical bent transparent glass body p...

This midcentury glass and brass chandelier was designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte in the 1940s. The Italian Art Deco d...

Vintage disk chandelier by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte made in Italy in the 1940s. Three exquisitely sculpted and sandblasted glass discs interact with light in contrasting manner...

Suspension light by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1940s. Glass, metal, brass. Original canopy. Custom brass ceiling plate. Wired for U.S. ...

A beautiful chandelier in white satin Murano glass with two glass discs held together a brass ring, by Pietro Chiesa. Circa 1940s.

Elegant midcentury Italian designer lamp, designed by Pietro Chiesa and made by Fontana Arte in Italy, during the 1940s. The light has two facing curved glass panels. This ceiling la...

Ceiling Light by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte. Designed and manufactured in Italy circa the 1950s. A timeless and sculptural ceiling light with signature Fontana Arte glass detaili...