Designer: Paolo Portoghesi
Manufacturer: Alessi Officina
Materials: Silver plated metal
Country of origin: Italy
Date: 1988
Dimensions: 5” H x 5” W x5” D
Condition: Very Good. Some professional restoration - pieces that had come apart were reattached.
Paolo Portoghesi is an early Italian Post-modern architect, theorist, historian, and professor based in Rome. These are one of two candleholder designs he created for Alessi in 1985 and produced in 1988 that were inspired by the design of the Algerian Tlemcen Mosque. Portoghesi employed a nearly identical design to the columns in Grande Mosque of Rome in 1994.
