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Tomaso Buzzi Wall Lights and Sconces

Italian, 1900-1981

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.

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Creator: Tomaso Buzzi
Set of Four Murano Glass Sconces by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, Italy, c. 1932.
Set of Four Murano Glass Sconces by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, Italy, c. 1932.

Set of Four Murano Glass Sconces by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, Italy, c. 1932.

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Elegant and refined, this set of four Italian wall sconces was designed by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, circa 1932. Each sconce features a softly flared pink Murano glass shade accented ...

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Tomaso Buzzi wall lights and sconces for sale on 1stDibs.

Tomaso Buzzi wall lights and sconces are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Tomaso Buzzi wall lights and sconces, although beige editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original wall lights and sconces by Tomaso Buzzi were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the mid-20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider wall lights and sconces by Pia Guidetti Crippa, Mario Bellini, and Gianni Celada. Prices for Tomaso Buzzi wall lights and sconces can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $2,840 and can go as high as $16,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $4,677.