Mid-century Gino Bushini Sculptural Bird Candleholders
This duo of whimsical sculptural bird candleholders are sure to catch many people's eyes.
Mid-Century Modern pieces from 1950 are designed and crafted by architect Gino Bushini.
They are constructed of copper, brass and steel with a verdigris patina finish on one of them.
They are all hand signed Bushini on the rear of the birds.
Though there are no known books written about Bushini. He appears to have been a rather eccentric architect and artists. In an essay credited to Bushini, the architect describes waging a “continuous battle against the stupidity of the world” since the age of 15. He writes that he spent weeks inside his Wisconsin childhood home, because he was unable to stomach all the “ugly telephone wires strung all over.”
At 17, he realized his life’s calling when he observed “a very strange and beautiful building” on a nearby hillside. The event caused him to draw “strange things” in his high school mechanical drawing class. “That was the beginning and end of my formal education in architecture,” he writes.
During the ‘60s and ‘70s, when Bushini designed and created buildings in Carmel and Pacific Grove.
After his stint in Monterey, Bushini spent some time in New Mexico before moving to the Philippines in the ‘70s. There is little else known about the man.
