Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Members of the Seguso family have been leading figures in the manufacture of glass on the Venetian island of Murano since the late 1300s, but for most collectors of vintage design the name evokes two companies formed in the first half of the 20th century. Seguso Vetri d’Arte, born from a small consortium of master glass artisans that included Archimede Seguso (1909–99), thrived under the artistic directorship of Flavio Poli (1900–84), a designer with an eye for modern forms, color and pattern. Vetreria Archimede Seguso, meanwhile, was founded in 1946, when Seguso opened his own atelier in order to employ classical techniques in the making of modern glassware.
The owners of Seguso Vetri d’Arte were justly proud of their skills as craftsmen, but they were not worldly aesthetes — and they knew it. Poli had studied at the Art Institute of Venice, originally working in ceramics before switching mediums and taking up the art of glass. He introduced new simple forms to the genre — the best known of his designs being the Valva, which resembles a clamshell in profile — and employed several novel techniques such as corroso, which gives glass a rough, emery-board-like finish. Poli’s most collectible works are his sommerso pieces, made with a layering process in which clear and colored-glass vessels are “submerged” within one another, producing a kind of nesting-doll effect in striking, elegant vases with bands of separate and overlapped hues.
At his eponymous workshop, Archimede Seguso often favored highly decorative, age-old techniques employed with modern restraint. His layered-glass Losanghe vessels have the look of an abstract checkerboard while his free-form Merletto vases have delicate, lacy patterns created by painstakingly twisting two heated glass straws to create helixes around the walls of the piece.
Though different in their scope and mission, both of these furnaces bearing the Seguso name created some of the most beautiful, alluring and exquisitely crafted works in all of modern design.
1960s Italian Vintage Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
2010s American Contemporary Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Citrine, Sapphire, Tourmaline, Turquoise, 14k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Art Deco Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Diamond, Blue Sapphire, Turquoise, Yellow Gold, 14k Gold
2010s Egyptian Contemporary Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Garnet, Zircon, 18k Gold, Vermeil, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary American Art Deco Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Turquoise, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
South Sea Pearl, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
1950s Danish Modernist Vintage Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Swedish Modernist Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Silver
20th Century American Retro Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Coral, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Artisan Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Diamond, 18k Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Turquoise, Diamond, 14k Gold, White Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Contemporary Seguso Vetri d'Arte Necklaces
Diamond, White Diamond, Jade, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold