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{{Short description|Italian American sculptor, furniture designer, and author (1913–1990)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Mario Dal Fabbro
| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|10|06}}
| birth_place = [[Cappella Maggiore]], [[Veneto]], [[Italy]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|06|20|1913|10|06}}
| death_place = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], U.S.
| known_for = Biokinetic wood sculptures, modernist furniture designs
| movement = [[Modernism]]
| education = Regio Magistero Artistico ([[Milan]])
}}
'''Mario Dal Fabbro''' (October 6, 1913 – June 20, 1990) was an Italian American [[Modernism|modernist]] sculptor, furniture designer, and author.
== Early life and education ==
Dal Fabbro was born in [[Cappella Maggiore]] in the [[Veneto]] region of [[Italy]] on October 6, 1913.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Fielding |first=Mantle |url=http://archive.org/details/mantlefieldingsd0000fiel |title=Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers |publisher=Apollo |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-938290-04-9 |location=Poughkeepsie, NY |pages=199 |language=en-US |trans-title=}}</ref> His parents were Pietro and Luigia Fiorina (Gava) Dal Fabbro.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/whoswhoineast1970000marq |title=Who's Who in the East, 1979-1980 |publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]] |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-8379-0617-1 |pages=180 |language=en-US}}</ref> In his youth, he worked in the family furniture shop. He studied art and design at the Royal Superior Institute for Industrial Arts in [[Venice]] and the Regio Magistero Artistico in [[Milan]] and graduated with high honors from the Institute in 1935 and Regio in 1937.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mario Dal Fabbro Sculpture |url=https://conversomod.com/products/mario-dal-fabbro-sculpture-11 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Converso Chicago |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Dal Fabbro |first=Mario |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001045520 |title=Modern Furniture: Its Design and Construction |publisher=Reinhold Pub. Corp. |year=1949 |location=New York |pages=prelims |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career ==
Between 1938 and 1948, Dal Fabbro achieved recognition in Italy as an exponent of creative contemporary furniture design, designing pieces for private individuals and Milan furniture houses. He participated in the [[Milan Triennial|Triennale di Milano competition]] in 1939 and 1947 and won the Garzanti competition for the standardization of furniture. During this period he also contributed to the Italian architecture and design publications ''[[Domus (magazine)|Domus]]'' and ''Stile'' and the French architecture magazine ''[[L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui]]''.<ref name=":0" /> He also served in the Italian Army during World War II.<ref name=":4" />
In 1948, Dal Fabbro immigrated to the United States, where he became an American citizen in 1951 and worked for 20 years as an [[Industrial design|industrial designer]] of furniture for [[Knoll, Inc.|Knoll]] and [[Paul McCobb]] and as a department head at JG Furniture in [[New York City]] and [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], where he resided from 1948 into the 1970s. His modernist designs were simple and practical with clean lines. In 1968, he retired from industry to become an independent sculptor, crafting abstract organic forms and kinetic structures in wood,<ref name=":0" /> which he exhibited but never allowed to be sold during his lifetime.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=St. Phard |first=Vyna |date=2012-02-20 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro at Maison Gerard |url=https://www.highendweekly.com/mario-dal-fabbro-at-maison-gerard/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=High End Weekly |language=en-US}}</ref>
The [[Allentown Art Museum]] featured 30 of his works at a 1972 solo exhibition and added several to its permanent collections.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1972-09-09 |title='Couldn't See the Art': 500 Jam Museum Season Opening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-couldnt-see-the-art/146155146/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=15}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> The [[Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts]] exhibited his work in 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1976-01-25 |title=Events: Art Alliance, Bethlehem competition, concerts - Sculpture |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-events-art-alliance-b/146156101/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=97}}</ref> His work was also exhibited at the [[Discovery Museum and Planetarium|Museum of Art, Science, and Industry]] in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]].<ref name=":2" /> In 2012, the New York gallery Maison Gerard exhibited works by Dal Fabbro and other artists "little known outside the collector’s market but whose work is important and noteworthy today."<ref name=":1" /> [[Sotheby's]], [[Christie's]], Wright, and other auction houses have sold his works.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Mario DalFabbro Sold at Auction Prices |url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/dalfabbro-mario-7dx3owuw6c/sold-at-auction-prices/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Invaluable.com}}</ref> In 1984, Dal Fabbro co-founded the Fairfield County Art Association in [[Fairfield, Connecticut]]. In 1986, [[Fairfield University]] named him the Fairfield Artist of the Year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro (b. 1913) - A Laminated and Stained Walnut Sculpture, 1978 |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5292966 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=[[Christie's]]}}</ref>
== Publications ==
In 1949, Dal Fabro published his first English-language book, ''Modern'' ''Furniture: Its Design and Construction'' ([[McGraw Hill Education|McGraw Hill]], 1949). The title went through four printings and sold 15,000 copies within three years of publication. Later books included ''How to Build Modern Furniture'' (1951), ''Furniture for Modern Interiors'' (1952), ''How to Make Built-in Furniture'' (1955), ''How to Make Children's Furniture and Play Equipment'' (1963), and ''Upholstered Furniture: Design and Construction'' (1969). McGraw Hill, [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]], F. W. Dodge, Reinhold, Gorlich, and other presses published his books, which were released in Italy, Spain and England as well as the U.S. He regularly contributed to ''[[The New York Times]]'' and [[House & Garden (magazine)|''House & Garden'']]<ref name=":0" /> and wrote for ''[[Popular Science]]'', [[McCall's]], ''[[Mechanix Illustrated]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 1951 |title=MI's Modern Furniture |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_todays-homeowner-solutions_1951-04_44_6 |journal=[[Mechanix Illustrated]] |language=en |publisher=Time Incorporated |volume=44 |issue=6}}</ref> and ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=1957-10-06 |title=For Handyman; Furniture Plans Offered in Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-for-handyman-fu/146154799/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] |pages=89}}</ref> coauthoring the section on furniture-making in a 1950s release of the encyclopedia.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=1955-12-11 |title=Two New Furniture Books Published by Allentonian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-two-new-furniture-books/146155472/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=61}}</ref>
Aimed at hobbyists as well as professional designers, Dal Fabbro's books received praise in the popular press. ''[[Library Journal]]'' described his two-volume ''How to Build Modern Furniture'' as "invaluable reference material" with "easy to follow instructions."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May 5, 1952 |title=How to Build Modern Furniture |url=http://archive.org/details/libraryjournal77 |journal=[[Library Journal]] |publisher= |volume=77 |issue=10 |pages=816}}</ref> The [[New York Public Library]] included the title on a list of "one hundred best technical books."''<ref name=":5" />'' A 1969 review in ''[[The Morning Call]]'' noted that ''Upholstered Furniture'' "meets needs of both the professional and the serious home craftsman."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1969-06-15 |title=Allentown Designer Authors New Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-allentown-designer-auth/146154960/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=101}}</ref> A 1954 review in the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' praised his ''Furniture for Modern Interiors'' for providing "a general, but inclusive view of what is northworthy among all the furniture produced in this country as well as elsewhere in the world. It avoids monotonous documentation, however."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-03-21 |title=Modern Furniture Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-modern-furnit/146155266/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |pages=49}}</ref> A 1950 in ''American Artist'' said of ''Modern Furniture'' that "the hobbyist, or architect on a busman's holiday, will find many hours of diversion in the section on furniture he can build. It is also a serious reference book for the architect interested in modern design in furniture."
== Personal life ==
Dal Fabbro married Allentown native Helen Rose (Dell Antonia) Dal Fabbro in Italy on May 9, 1944. The couple had one daughter.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref>
He retired to [[Fairfield, Connecticut]], and died in [[Bridgeport Hospital]] in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on June 20, 1990, at the age of 76.<ref name=":6" />
== References ==
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[[Category:Sculptors from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:American woodcarvers]]
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{{Short description|Italian American sculptor, furniture designer, and author (1913–1990)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Mario Dal Fabbro
| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|10|06}}
| birth_place = [[Cappella Maggiore]], [[Veneto]], [[Italy]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|06|20|1913|10|06}}
| death_place = [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], U.S.
| known_for = Biokinetic wood sculptures, modernist furniture designs
| movement = [[Modernism]]
| education = Regio Magistero Artistico ([[Milan]])
}}
'''Mario Dal Fabbro''' (October 6, 1913 – June 20, 1990) was an Italian American [[Modernism|modernist]] sculptor, furniture designer, and author.
== Early life and education ==
Dal Fabbro was born in [[Cappella Maggiore]] in the [[Veneto]] region of [[Italy]] on October 6, 1913.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Fielding |first=Mantle |url=http://archive.org/details/mantlefieldingsd0000fiel |title=Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers |publisher=Apollo |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-938290-04-9 |location=Poughkeepsie, NY |pages=199 |language=en-US |trans-title=}}</ref> His parents were Pietro and Luigia Fiorina (Gava) Dal Fabbro.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/whoswhoineast1970000marq |title=Who's Who in the East, 1979-1980 |publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]] |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-8379-0617-1 |pages=180 |language=en-US}}</ref> In his youth, he worked in the family furniture shop. He studied art and design at the Royal Superior Institute for Industrial Arts in [[Venice]] and the Regio Magistero Artistico in [[Milan]] and graduated with high honors from the Institute in 1935 and Regio in 1937.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Mario Dal Fabbro Sculpture |url=https://conversomod.com/products/mario-dal-fabbro-sculpture-11 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Converso Chicago |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Dal Fabbro |first=Mario |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001045520 |title=Modern Furniture: Its Design and Construction |publisher=Reinhold Pub. Corp. |year=1949 |location=New York |pages=prelims |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Career ==
Between 1938 and 1948, Dal Fabbro achieved recognition in Italy as an exponent of creative contemporary furniture design, designing pieces for private individuals and Milan furniture houses. He participated in the [[Milan Triennial|Triennale di Milano competition]] in 1939 and 1947 and won the Garzanti competition for the standardization of furniture. During this period he also contributed to the Italian architecture and design publications ''[[Domus (magazine)|Domus]]'' and ''Stile'' and the French architecture magazine ''[[L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui]]''.<ref name=":0" /> He also served in the Italian Army during World War II.<ref name=":4" />
In 1948, Dal Fabbro immigrated to the United States, where he became an American citizen in 1951 and worked for 20 years as an [[Industrial design|industrial designer]] of furniture for [[Knoll, Inc.|Knoll]] and [[Paul McCobb]] and as a department head at JG Furniture in [[New York City]] and [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], where he resided from 1948 into the 1970s. His modernist designs were simple and practical with clean lines. In 1968, he retired from industry to become an independent sculptor, crafting abstract organic forms and kinetic structures in wood,<ref name=":0" /> which he exhibited but never allowed to be sold during his lifetime.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=St. Phard |first=Vyna |date=2012-02-20 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro at Maison Gerard |url=https://www.highendweekly.com/mario-dal-fabbro-at-maison-gerard/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=High End Weekly |language=en-US}}</ref>
The [[Allentown Art Museum]] featured 30 of his works at a 1972 solo exhibition and added several to its permanent collections.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1972-09-09 |title='Couldn't See the Art': 500 Jam Museum Season Opening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-couldnt-see-the-art/146155146/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=15}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> The [[Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts]] exhibited his work in 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1976-01-25 |title=Events: Art Alliance, Bethlehem competition, concerts - Sculpture |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-events-art-alliance-b/146156101/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=97}}</ref> His work was also exhibited at the [[Discovery Museum and Planetarium|Museum of Art, Science, and Industry]] in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]].<ref name=":2" /> In 2012, the New York gallery Maison Gerard exhibited works by Dal Fabbro and other artists "little known outside the collector’s market but whose work is important and noteworthy today."<ref name=":1" /> [[Sotheby's]], [[Christie's]], Wright, and other auction houses have sold his works.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Mario DalFabbro Sold at Auction Prices |url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/dalfabbro-mario-7dx3owuw6c/sold-at-auction-prices/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Invaluable.com}}</ref> In 1984, Dal Fabbro co-founded the Fairfield County Art Association in [[Fairfield, Connecticut]]. In 1986, [[Fairfield University]] named him the Fairfield Artist of the Year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro (b. 1913) - A Laminated and Stained Walnut Sculpture, 1978 |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5292966 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=[[Christie's]]}}</ref>
== Publications ==
In 1949, Dal Fabro published his first English-language book, ''Modern'' ''Furniture: Its Design and Construction'' ([[McGraw Hill Education|McGraw Hill]], 1949). The title went through four printings and sold 15,000 copies within three years of publication. Later books included ''How to Build Modern Furniture'' (1951), ''Furniture for Modern Interiors'' (1952), ''How to Make Built-in Furniture'' (1955), ''How to Make Children's Furniture and Play Equipment'' (1963), and ''Upholstered Furniture: Design and Construction'' (1969). McGraw Hill, [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]], F. W. Dodge, Reinhold, Gorlich, and other presses published his books, which were released in Italy, Spain and England as well as the U.S. He regularly contributed to ''[[The New York Times]]'' and [[House & Garden (magazine)|''House & Garden'']]<ref name=":0" /> and wrote for ''[[Popular Science]]'', [[McCall's]], ''[[Mechanix Illustrated]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 1951 |title=MI's Modern Furniture |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_todays-homeowner-solutions_1951-04_44_6 |journal=[[Mechanix Illustrated]] |language=en |publisher=Time Incorporated |volume=44 |issue=6}}</ref> and ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |date=1957-10-06 |title=For Handyman; Furniture Plans Offered in Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-for-handyman-fu/146154799/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] |pages=89}}</ref> coauthoring the section on furniture-making in a 1950s release of the encyclopedia.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=1955-12-11 |title=Two New Furniture Books Published by Allentonian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-two-new-furniture-books/146155472/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=61}}</ref>
Aimed at hobbyists as well as professional designers, Dal Fabbro's books received praise in the popular press. ''[[Library Journal]]'' described his two-volume ''How to Build Modern Furniture'' as "invaluable reference material" with "easy to follow instructions."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May 5, 1952 |title=How to Build Modern Furniture |url=http://archive.org/details/libraryjournal77 |journal=[[Library Journal]] |publisher= |volume=77 |issue=10 |pages=816}}</ref> The [[New York Public Library]] included the title on a list of "one hundred best technical books."''<ref name=":5" />'' A 1969 review in ''[[The Morning Call]]'' noted that ''Upholstered Furniture'' "meets needs of both the professional and the serious home craftsman."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1969-06-15 |title=Allentown Designer Authors New Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-allentown-designer-auth/146154960/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=The Morning Call |pages=101}}</ref> A 1954 review in the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' praised his ''Furniture for Modern Interiors'' for providing "a general, but inclusive view of what is northworthy among all the furniture produced in this country as well as elsewhere in the world. It avoids monotonous documentation, however."<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-03-21 |title=Modern Furniture Book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-modern-furnit/146155266/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |pages=49}}</ref> A 1950 in ''American Artist'' said of ''Modern Furniture'' that "the hobbyist, or architect on a busman's holiday, will find many hours of diversion in the section on furniture he can build. It is also a serious reference book for the architect interested in modern design in furniture."
== Personal life ==
Dal Fabbro married Allentown native Helen Rose (Dell Antonia) Dal Fabbro in Italy on May 9, 1944. The couple had one daughter.<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |date=1990-06-22 |title=Mario Dal Fabbro, furniture designer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call-mario-dal-fabbro-furni/146154612/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |work=[[The Morning Call]] |pages=35}}</ref>
He retired to [[Fairfield, Connecticut]], and died in [[Bridgeport Hospital]] in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on June 20, 1990, at the age of 76.<ref name=":6" />
== References ==
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{{Authority control}}
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[[Category:1990 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American sculptors]]
[[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:American furniture designers]]
[[Category:American instructional writers]]
[[Category:American male sculptors]]
[[Category:American modern sculptors]]
[[Category:Artists from Veneto]]
[[Category:Italian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Italian furniture designers]]
[[Category:Italian military personnel of World War II]]
[[Category
eople from Allentown, Pennsylvania]][[Category:Sculptors from Connecticut]]
[[Category:Sculptors from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:American woodcarvers]]
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