Biography

Félix Agostini (1910 – 1980)

Félix Agostini was born in Paris in 1910. He had a talent for drawing from childhood, and at the age of 24 was hired by a printer as an advertising designer and retoucher. A few years later, he opened his own store and produced his first lighting fixtures in wrought iron, ceramics and bronze. He also worked with Diego Giacometti. From 1955 onwards, he sculpts the models for his lighting fixtures in plaster, which are then cast in bronze. Every summer for several years, he personally exhibited his work at the Galerie Cusin in Mougins, where he built up a large clientele. Félix Agostini died in 1980.

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