Venini On Sale
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Flush Mount
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass
Blown Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Gold Plate
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Metal
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
20th Century French Table Lamps
Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Murano Glass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Murano Glass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Iron
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Gold Leaf
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Gold Leaf
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Murano Glass
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Murano Glass
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Murano Glass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Flush Mount
Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Bronze
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Murano Glass
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome, Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Picture Frames
Murano Glass, Plastic, Plaster
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Glass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Art Glass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass
Murano Glass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Art Glass, Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
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Murano Glass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Glass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Art Glass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Murano Glass
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Murano Glass
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Beginning in the 1930s — and throughout the postwar years especially — Venini & Co. played a leading role in the revival of Italy’s high-end glass industry, pairing innovative modernist designers with the skilled artisans in the centuries-old glass workshops on the Venetian island of Murano. While the company’s founder, Paolo Venini (1895–1959), was himself a highly talented glassware designer, his true genius was to invite forward-thinking Italian and international designers to Murano’s hallowed workshops to create Venini pieces — among them Giò Ponti, Massimo Vignelli, Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala, Thomas Stearnsof the United States and Fulvio Bianconi.
Paolo Venini trained and practiced as a lawyer for a time, though his family had been involved with glassmaking for generations. After initially buying a share in a Venetian glass firm, he took over the company as his own in 1925, and under his direction it produced mainly classical Baroque designs. In 1932, he hired the young Carlo Scarpa— who would later distinguish himself as an architect — as his lead designer. Scarpa, working in concert with practiced glass artisans, completely modernized Venini, introducing simple, pared-down forms; bright primary colors; and bold patterns such as stripes, banding and abstract compositions that utilized cross sections of murrine (glass rods).
Paolo Venini’s best designs are thought to be his two-color Clessidre hourglasses, produced from 1957 onward, and the Fazzoletto (“handkerchief”) vase, designed with Bianconi in 1949. Bianconi’s masterworks are considered by many to be his Pezzato works — colorful vases with patterns that resemble those of a patchwork quilt. Other noteworthy and highly collectible vintage Venini works include Ponti’s dual-tone stoppered bottles (circa 1948); rare glass sculptures from the Doge series by Stearns, the first American to design for the firm; Vignelli’s striped lanterns of the 1960s; the Occhi vases with eyelet-shaped patterns by Tobia Scarpa (son of Carlo); and, with their almost zen purity, the Bolle (“bubbles”) bottles designed by Wirkkala in 1968.
With these works — and many others by some of the creative titans of the 20th and 21st century — Venini has produced one of the truly great bodies of work in modern design.