Cleto Munari Ashtrays

Blue Murano glass "Collection" ashtray for Cleto Munari. This fantastic piece was designed and signed by Carlo Nason in Italy during the 1980s. The way this incredible piece incorporates and reflects the light it's just breathtaking, as it is visible the astonishing manual sculptural work on the concave part of the tray. The perfect item to complete a living room with clear tones or a minimal studio. Italian designer Carlo Nason was born into a family of expert glassmakers in 1935 in Murano, Venice. His father, Vincenzo Nason, directed the renowned glass business NasonMoretti and opened a second glass business under the name Vincenzo Nason & C in 1941. From an early age, the younger Nason received training in the art of glassblowing, learning about both the properties of the material and the artisanal techniques used in glass moulding and decoration. The richness of the artistic production of Cleto Munari, arises out of the discovery that every boundary is undefined, and the consequent need to create a “collection about syllables” or rather a “collection of figures” which, because of their incompleteness, luminously suggest the irrepressible quest of man’s intelligence to transfigure the world, according to his own vision. It is this perfect complicity between the whisper of the “heart...