Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator — Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th-century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and ‘30s — an approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano.
Buzzi was born in 1900 in the town of Sondrio in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, and soon after he graduated joined a lively Milanese decorative arts scene. In 1927, he and Ponti joined fellow designers Paolo Venini and Michele Marelli to form a design collaborative called Il Labirinto (the Labyrinth), Italy’s answer to the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1932, when Venini's glass company lost the design services of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, who left to start his own factory, he turned to Buzzi. The young architect’s careful study of lighting design and a love for experimentation yielded major innovations in Murano glass fixtures. The forms of his wares were inspired by sources from antiquity as diverse as Persian urns and animal-shaped Etruscan jugs. Buzzi developed a complex glass-layering method that produced deep, glowing pastel colors that ran from pink to peach, to sea-green and slate blue.
Buzzi furniture has a noteworthy elegance and nobility. Delicate chairs with arrow-shaped backs and elaborate burled wood armoires are typical of his aesthetic, and would add a sophisticated note to any room, modern or traditional. And an exemplary piece of Buzzi’s vibrant, lustrous glassware would merit a place of honor in every design collection.
Tomaso Buzzi for Venini Floor Lamp in Glass and Gold Leaf
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, floor lamp, model '502', alga glass, brass, gold leaf, Italy, 1933-38 This remarkable Italian floor lamp, designed by the Milanese multidisciplinary artist ...
Brass, Gold Leaf
$7,200Sale Price|20% Off
Model No. B-30 Floor Lamp by Franco Buzzi for Oluce
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model No. B-30 floor lamp by Franco Buzzi for Oluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1950s. Enameled metal, brass, marble base. Original co...
Marble, Metal, Brass
Italian Art Deco Murano glass floor lamp by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, 1930s
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Art Deco Murano glass floor lamp by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, 1930s Floor lamp in green and gold lagoon glass. The frame is brass and the decorations are Murano glass. The lam...
Brass
$5,014
H 39.38 in Dm 11.82 in
Attributed to Tomaso Buzzi Art Dèco Style Brass Murano Glass Lantern Chandelier
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Art Deco style lantern chandelier with brass structure and roped glass diffuser, attributed to the architect and designer Tomaso Buzzi, ceiling lamp mod. 5265, from 1936. Height of g...
Brass
Large Architectural Glass and Concrete Floor Lamp for in and Outdoors
Located in Berlin, DE
We found this lamp in France and it was installed at a modernist 1960s house close to Bordeaux. Very unique. Please note: Lamp should be fitted professionally in accordance to local...
Concrete
VENINI MURANO - art deco chandelier - 1930s
By Venini
Located in Milano, IT
VENINI - Murano - Elegant chandelier in pulegoso glass, from Murano, original 1930s , Art Dèco period. Pulegoso glass is a technique developed in the 1920s by Napoleone Martinuzzi at...
Steel
Art Deco Floor Lamp France, 1930s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and elegant Art Deco floor lamp. Striking French design from the 1930s. Solid walnut base with new fabric shade. Rewired with one socket for E-27 light bulb. This wonderful ...
Fabric, Walnut
1930s Art Deco Floor Lamp, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia Newly rewired. Repolished walnut veneer - E26/E27 bulb with any wattage if LED version is used.
Glass, Wood
Agnoli Floor Lamp by Tito Agnoli for Oluce
By Oluce, Tito Agnoli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Agnoli floor lamp by Tito Agnoli for Oluce. The lamp gets its name from the designer who was nominated twice for the Compasso d’Oro award and was...
Metal
B3 Wall lamp by Franco Buzzi for Oluce, Italy, 1950
By Oluce, Franco Buzzi
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Extendable and adjustable Model B3 wall lamps, designed by Franco Buzzi for Oluce. Featuring an elegant structure in brass and metal, each lamp is equipped with a large lacquered alu...
Metal, Aluminum, Brass
Pair Venini Feather Sconces by Tomaso Buzzi 1930
By Venini, Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Hanover, MA
Graceful original pair of glass "feather" sconces from Venini Murano and designed by Tomaso Buzzi circa 1930. Gold air twist down the centre stem. Bronze mounts. Rewired. Ready to mo...
Bronze
Model No. B-30 Floor Lamp by Franco Buzzi for Oluce
By Franco Buzzi, Oluce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model No. B-30 floor lamp by Franco Buzzi for Oluce. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1950s. Enameled metal, brass, marble base. Original EU cor...
Marble, Metal, Brass
Superluna Floor Lamp by Victor Vasilev for Oluce
By Oluce
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Superluna floor lamp by Victor Vasilev for Oluce. Inspired by Vico Magistretti’s work, Vasilev focused on iconic shapes to improve the potential of the ...
Metal
Italian Art Deco Ceiling Light Attributed to Tomaso Buzzi, 1930s
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Milan, IT
Elegant and sculptural Italian ceiling light from the 1930s, attributed to Tomaso Buzzi. This striking Art Deco fixture features a dynamic composition of polished chrome elements com...
Chrome, Nickel
Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1940s. An extremely striking elegantly crafted chandelier comprising of multiple pressed glass in...
Brass
Venini Floor Lamp by Tommaso Buzzi
By Tomaso Buzzi, Venini
Located in Naples, IT
Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and 1930s. An approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano. Buzzi was born in 1900 in the town of Sondrio in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, and soon after he graduated joined a lively Milanese decorative arts scene. In 1927, he and Ponti joined fellow designers Paolo Venini and Michele Marelli to form a design collaborative called Il Labirinto (the Labyrinth), Italy’s answer to the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1932, when Venini's glass company lost the design services of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, who left to start his own factory, he turned to Buzzi. The young architect’s careful study of lighting design and a love for experimentation yielded major innovations in Murano glass fixtures. The forms of his wares were inspired by sources from antiquity as diverse as Persian urns and animal-shaped Etruscan jugs...
Brass