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Mazzega 1946 (AV Mazzega)
Toni Zuccheri VeArt Lamps – Google Images
Many thanks to Ger for some additional photos and all the help.
Chrome And Glass Globes Chandelier
Materials: Chromed metal (iron) tubes, folded slats & parts. 3 crystal, orange, milky and clear glass globes. Chrome chain and canopy. Bakelite E14 sockets.
Chain Length: 90 cm / 35.43”
Height: 40 cm / 15.74”
Width: ∅ 45 cm / 17.71”
Electricity: 3 bulbs E14, 3 x 60 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1960s, 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: To be determined.
Other versions: This chrome and glass globes chandelier exists in many versions and sizes. Also made as table lamps, floor lamps, flush mounts and wall lamps.
Companies
These lamps were sold by several companies, as you can see on the labels on the left. Unfortunately a search on SILA sas gave no result. Arredalux is another Italian company that sold these lamps. Also Massive from Belgium sold similar lamps. The glass was made bij De Rupel, from Boom, Belgium.
An e-mail to AV Mazzega gave this as an answer: (translated from Italian to English) “I do not exclude they may be our lamps but I can not even give you the certainty. They are lamps that date back to many years ago where a management or photographic samples was not used.
I’m sorry I can not help you with other data but in our technical department I could not find anything that could bring back to these lamps.”
An American guy on Facebook said to me, unfortunately without proof, that his chandelier with round globes is labelled with an AV Mazzega label. I asked him for a photo of it, but he never answered me again.
Over the years several lamps appeared with an AV Mazzega label, all with similar globes. Chandeliers, table lamps and so on. Changing labels or printing a label yourself is all done quickly these days.
Often said that these lamps are a Toni Zuccheri design, they are not. Zuccheri never worked for AV Mazzega, as the company confirmed.
Conclusion
But honestly, if you think about it, there are simply far too many of them to consider them artisan Murano lamps. These are mass-produced lamps. Possibly made by multiple anonymous manufacturers, which is common practice, both then and now. And then sold by giants like Massive from Belgium, which sold large numbers of lamps throughout Europe.
AV Mazzega (Mazzega 1946)
AV Mazzega was founded in Murano in 1946 by Angelo Vittorio Mazzega. Initially devoted to traditional Murano glass, the company shifted in the 1960s toward contemporary lighting design under the leadership of his children Lidia and Gianni Bruno Mazzega.
Gianni Bruno in particular recognized the talent of Carlo Nason, who went on to define the company’s creative direction. With Nason’s groundbreaking experiments in layered glass and vetro in piastra, AV Mazzega gained international recognition in the 1960s and 1970s. Their lamps became synonymous with Italian design innovation, bridging tradition and modernity.
In 2000, Andrea Mazzega, grandson of the founder, became president. Today the company operates under the name Mazzega 1946, working with leading international designers while continuing to reissue Nason’s classics.
Designers who collaborated with AV Mazzega / Mazzega 1946
Carlo Nason, Aldo Nason, Massimo Rioda, Christophe Pillet, Michele De Lucchi, Giovanni Barbato, Paolo Piva, Sam Baron, Gasmi Chafik, Oriano Favaretto, Michelle Liccese, Gianfranco Gianetti, Amerigo Lorini, Claudio Marturano, Paolo Franzin, Anki Greib, Luisa Bocchietto, Gordon Guilaumier, Oriano Favaretto, Giovanni Barbato and Riccardo Giovannetti, among others.
Chrome And Glass Globes Chandelier – Other Models
