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A pair of impressive architectural bronze garden lights signed…
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Melbourne
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12-Oct-2004
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A pair of impressive architectural bronze garden lights signed Professor Rigotti, each with a circular plinth base rising to a cylindrical green patinated body, elaborately cast with overlapping and graduated festoons of acanthus leaves, the gadrooned neck surmounted by a circular opaque glass shade within a jewelled bronze mount with conforming foliate moulded supports. Height 167 cm. Annibale Rigotti was born in Turin on the 30th September, 1870 and died there on 8th March 1968. This Italian architect, teacher, designer and urban planner graduated from the Academia di Belle Arti in Turin in 1890 and formed a friendship with Raimondo d'Aronco, with whom he collaborated on the design for the neo-Baroque Giaccone house on Corso Matteotti, Turin. During his working career Rigotti designed and built a number of important buildings not only in Italy but also in Turkey, Bulgaria and Thailand
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