Rare Ilaria Logi Southern Cross 7 Pc Puzzle Australia 1983 Phosphorated Bronze

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Ilaria Logi, often in collaboration with Angiolo Logi, created limited edition, high-end collectible puzzles that double as sculptures. Their pieces … Read more Ilaria Logi, often in collaboration with Angiolo Logi, created limited edition, high-end collectible puzzles that double as sculptures. Their pieces are primarily made from sterling silver or cast bronze and are inspired by the flora, fauna, and geography of Australia and other regions.
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Artists: Ilaria Logi (a silversmith) and Angiolo Logi (an architect and professor) were an Italian couple who settled in Sydney, Australia, in 1979 and established a workshop/gallery called "Puzzle".
Materials:
The puzzles are crafted in materials like sterling silver (often .925 grade) or phosphorated bronze.
Themes: Their work often features Australian and Aboriginal-inspired motifs, such as eucalyptus leaves, black swans, and maps of Australia. Other limited editions include "Fauna Americana".
Functionality: The items are both intricate, collectible works of fine art and functional, multi-piece brain teasers.
Presentation:
Each puzzle typically comes in a fitted timber box, often velvet-lined, with documentation and is numbered as part of a limited edition set.
These puzzles are considered museum-quality pieces of Australian design, blending fine art with puzzle craft.
They settled in Sydney in 1979 and SilverPuzzle was founded in the same year in Paddington, where their collection can be viewed in elegant surroundings.
The extensive research done by Logis into the behavioural
The Silver Puzzle collection represents a narrative of forms and symbolic motifs which continue to evolve through the Logis exposure to the inspiration they find in natural realities such as leaves, seedpods, animals, shapes that have both geographic and universal references.
Following their participation in an historic design exhibition at the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome in October ’99, the Logis have become involved with several Italian silverware designers famous for producing quality contemporary design.
characteristics of silver in its fluid molten state before it sets in a tridimensional mould has given their work its unique character.
By pushing the conventional limits of their technique with sterling silver, they have achieved a new quality of design which has won them critical acclaim throughout Australia, the US and Europe.
The Logis enjoy manipulating the boundaries of sensory experience with their pieces.
They share with these designers the same rigorous study into the properties of silver, its malleability, colour, reflective power and luminosity, that creates the essential features of their design.
A full panorama of Italian contemporary silverware design will be on show at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney 2003, in a major exhibition entitled ‘Italian Silver of the 20th Century.’
Their studies into the tactile properties of silver objects obtained with the 'lost wax' casting technique, have revealed new methods of challenging the conventional approaches to perception.
Their aim is to allow you to see with your fingers, touch with your mind…
The Logis, as promoters and organisers have put together a sample from the collection housed in the ‘Museo degli Argenti’ at the Castle of Sartirana in northern Italy.
A selection of the works by Brandimarte, De Vecchi, Pampaloni, and Gatto Bianco are already on show at SilverPuzzle. See less