Venini Glass
Italian
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 who created extraordinary chandeliers, sconces and other lighting in the centuries-old glass workshops on the Venetian island of Murano.
While the company’s co-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 Gio Ponti, Massimo Vignelli, Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala, Thomas Stearns of 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 and antiques dealer Giacomo Cappellin established Vetri Soffiati Cappellin Venini & C. in 1921 — Venini took over the company as his own in 1925, and under his direction, it produced mainly classical Baroque designs.
In 1932, Venini 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 centuries — Venini has produced one of the truly great bodies of work in modern design.
Find antique and vintage Venini chandeliers, serveware, table lamps, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Creator: Venini
Tobia Scarpa Vase "Occhi" for Venini, circa 1960
By Venini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Tobia Scarpa Vase "Occhi" for Venini, circa 1960
A white 'occhi' murrine vase designed by Tobia Scarpa in 1960, manufactured by Venini, Venice ca. 1960. Acid stamped signature 'veni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage Murano Glass Decorative Item of Cherries by Martinuzzi for Venini, Italy
By Napoleone Martinuzzi, Venini
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1930s.
These cherries are made by Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini in Murano glass.
This item might show slight traces of use since it's vintage as a chip on the top t...
Category
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$293 Sale Price
25% Off
Venini Murano Signed Green Cocktail Pitcher
By Venini
Located in Topeka, KS
Gorgeous Murano cocktail pitcher or carafe by Venini. It is emerald, green with an acid etched signature. Wonderful vintage condition with no chips, cracks, or chiggers. There is some shelf wear to the bottom. Please see photos, Circa 1960s.
If you want to serve your guests their cocktails in high style, you need this fabulous pitcher! This is a Venini carafe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Rare Venini "Diamante" Table Obelisk
By Venini
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A rare table decoration by Venini in the Diamante pattern. Used in several project by Frances Elkins, this piece has a barely discernible etched signature to the base.
Category
20th Century Italian Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Rare Set of Two Murano Glass Bottles by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini, 1950s
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini
Located in Milan, IT
Rare set of two bottles with stopper "A Fasce Verticali" by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Elegant Contemporary Suspended Murano Blown Glass Crystal Chandelier by Venini
By Venini
Located in murano, IT
964.10 Triedri Crystal/Amber color glass.
Chandelier composed of “Triedri“ elements in solid cristallo- and amber-coloured glass that when curved take on a hemispherical shape. The structure and chain are in chrome-plated metal.
The Triedri, conceived between 1958 and 1960, are solid cristallo glass elements that, used as vertical modules for lighting fixtures, can be assembled to form various shapes. The trihedron, as a crystalline prism with a triangular section...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Simbiosi Artist Proof Glass and Marble Sculpture by Emmanuel Babled for Venini
By Venini, Emmanuel Babled
Located in murano, IT
Simbiosi is an edition of unique glass and marble pieces, marrying the two materials into vases It is in the border between manufactured products and one of sculptures. The functiona...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Venini Glass
Materials
Carrara Marble
Purple & green Murano Glass Flasks by Venini, 1980s
By Laura Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Set of 2 small decorative Murano flasks designed by Laura de Santillana and manufactured by Venini in the 1980s. the green flask shows a visible small chip at the neck as stated in p...
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Venini vase Colletti series 70’s
By Venini, Alessandro Diaz de Santillana
Located in bari, IT
Colletti series vase in greenish blown glass with two-tone incalmo band decoration designer Alessandro Diaz de Santillana. Venini engraved signature.
After graduating in architecture...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$1,233 Sale Price
20% Off
Incise Glass Bottle in Grass Green by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A multitude of shapes and colours. Every bottle has its own, chosen with care by Paolo Venini in 1956. Skilfully etched to conceal their imaginary content, they pique the curiosity of the viewers, who just can’t refrain from taking the lid off to peek inside and find out the truth.
Additional information:
Material: Blown, engraved
Color: Grass green...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
$4,081 / item
Venini by Pierre Cardin, big Murano Glass Sculpture, Egg Sculpure, Italian 1960s
By Pierre Cardin, Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in Milano, IT
Spinzi is a Milano based creative atelier specialised in furniture design as well as sourcing and trading relevant mid-century collectible design. Check out our storefront and websit...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$1,034 Sale Price
20% Off
Murano Blown Glass Contemporary Pendant Light Design by Peter Marino for Venini
By Venini, Peter Marino
Located in murano, IT
Cilindro 893.65
Peter Marino’s work is notoriously provocative. The Rotondo, Cilindro, and Parallelo lamps are no exception: using the “Fasce” technique, the artist hot-works colour...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
OSMOSI Artist Proof Glass and Marble Sculpture by Emmanuel Babled for Venini
By Venini, Emmanuel Babled
Located in murano, IT
The work is part of the Osmosis series, exhibited at Palazzo Franchetti, in conjunction with the 55 th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The project combines new t...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Venini Glass
Materials
Carrara Marble
Simbiosi Wood Glass and Wood Unique Piece by Emmanuel Babled for Venini
By Emmanuel Babled, Venini
Located in murano, IT
Sculpture in clear, opaque pink, straw yellow and bamboo colored glass with gold leaf resting
on ebony wood. The process involved begins with the realization of the glass. The hand ...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass, Ebony
Murano artistic vase "pulegoso" Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini 1930s
By Napoleone Martinuzzi, Venini
Located in Milano, MI
"Pulegoso" Murano 1930s artistic vase designed for Venini by artist and designer Martinuzzi Napoleon
The vase is made of very dark green "pulegose" glass with bubbling with snake-sh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$7,827 Sale Price
44% Off
Fulvio Bianconi "Fazzoletto" Vase for Venini
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini
Located in Milan, IT
Fulvio Bianconi "Fazzoletto" vase for Venini. Iridescent turquoise and sang-de-boeuf glass.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
venini Fulvio Bianconi artistic murano vase series "a Macchie" 1950s
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini
Located in Milano, MI
Rare slightly amber and iridescent glass vase with black figure in one side and blue in the other.
This art glass belongs to the "A Macchie" series designed in the early 1950s by Ful...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$37,360 Sale Price
30% Off
Venini Murano Glass Book Ends with Red and White Murrine, Italy 1969
By Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in Milan, IT
Venini Murano Glass Book Ends with Red and White Murrine, Italy 1969
Reference: Catalogo Ragionato Venini
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Nickel
$4,269 Sale Price
20% Off
Venini Opalino Large Black Black Inside Glass Vase
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Satin glass vase, designed and manufactured by Venini, features the same shape of the iconic opalino vase with a frosted finish.
Indoor use only.
Dimensions: Ø 20 cm, H 42 cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
$1,727 / item
Venini Water and Wine Bottles Murano Glass, 1950, Italy
By Venini
Located in Milano, IT
Venini water and wine bottles Murano glass, 1950, Italy.
Category
1950s Italian Other Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Incise Glass Bottle in Cornelian Orange by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A multitude of shapes and colours. Every bottle has its own, chosen with care by Paolo Venini in 1956. Skilfully etched to conceal their imaginary content, they pique the curiosity o...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
$4,081 / item
Signed Venini Murano Blue Birds Doves Designed by Tyra Lundgren
By Venini
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Designed by Tyra Lundgren circa 1930s, this signed pair of whimsical full sized doves was made by Venini in Murano, Italy. The pair are well proportioned, each one unique in design i...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Venini Murano Italian Green Glass Bottle Vase Incisi Serie, 2004
By Venini
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian glass bottle vasec with stopper, “Incisi” series, in two-color submerged glass with surface entirely worked by grinding produced by Venini Murano, Venini trademark 2004 engra...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Gio Ponti "A Canne" Glass Pitcher for Venini
By Venini, Gio Ponti
Located in New York, NY
Gio Ponti "A Canne" Glass Pitcher for Venini, Italy. "A Canne" translates to "With Reeds". Blue and Green stripes. Excellent vintage condition with age related wear. No chips, cra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Dark Green Murano Vase by Tobia Scarpa Buttato Series, Venini, 1960
By Venini, Tobia Scarpa
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
incredible vase signed by scarpa 1960 in murano glass from the series battuto for Venini
signature on the bottom of vase.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Venini Bianconi Teal and White Zanfirico Lattimo Dish or Low Bowl
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine 1950's zanfirico lattimo plate.
By Venini & Co.
Attributed to Paolo Venini or Fulvio Bianconi.
Of a low bowl or plate form with a slightly raised center.
With alternatin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
1950 Tyra Lundgren Venini Murano Glass White Filigrana Leaf Bowl
By Tyra Lundgren Carolina, Venini
Located in Brescia, IT
"Leaf" Bowl
Tyra Lundgren
Venini, 1950
White Glass "Mezza Filigrana"
Showed at Biennale of Venice 1938
Excellent Condiction
No cracks
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Vintage Green Cased Alga Glass Vase with Gold Leaf by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, Murano, 1930s.
Between 1932 and 1933 the Milanese architect Tomaso Buzzi, a spirited protagonist of the Milan “neoclassicist” movement, a friend and associate of Gio Ponti, and a partner of Il Labirinto, established a fruitful collaboration with the Venini glassware company, which would continue, albeit episodically, in later years. The architect’s creative contribution was evident both in the glass forms and in their innovative manufacturing technique. When Buzzi arrived at the Venini company in Murano, in 1932, he brought with him a remarkable cultural baggage and a thorough knowledge of ancient art, particularly the Etruscan period...
Category
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Gold Leaf
$2,490 Sale Price
30% Off
Venini Mezza Filigrana Bottle
By Venini
Located in Riverdale, NY
Lovely, period Venini Mezza filigrana bottle circa 1950's of spiraling threads in yellow and black on crystal with elongated neck, conical stopper, po...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Venini Opalino Large Indigo Milk White Inside Glass Vase
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Satin glass vase, designed and manufactured by Venini, features the same shape of the iconic opalino vase with a frosted finish.
Indoor use only.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
1950 "Filigrana" Carlo Scarpa Venini Italian Design Vetro Murano Ciotola
By Venini, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Brescia, IT
Ciotola
Carlo Scarpa
Venini, Murano
Italy, 1950
Vetro "Filigrana" Rosso
Perfette condizioni
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Tapio Wirkkala Polipo Venini Plate Murano Sculpture, 1990
By Venini, Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Paris, IDF
Rare beautiful Tapio Wirkkala “Polipo” plate for Venini, from the serie “Piatti di Tapio” signed and dated Venini TW 90 on the back, made of Murano glass using Incalmo technique. The...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Venini iridescent Murano vase series "A Macchie" by Fulvio Bianconi Italy 1950
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini
Located in Milano, MI
Rare vase designed in the 50s by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini.
The "spotted" series
The artist-designed blown glass vase with abstract pictorial inserts.
The 3-level etched signature ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$26,567 Sale Price
74% Off
Venini for Disaronno Amber and White Fused Glass Ice Bucket, Murano Italy
By Venini
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Modernist vintage ice bucket has abstract geometric decor of fused white glass on transparent amber colored glass with controlled bubbles effect. The piece has two small rounded han...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass, Glass
Venini Murano Signed Lavender Purple Opaline Italian Art Glass Flower Vase
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful tall vintage Murano hand blown opaline lavender purple Italian art glass flower vase. Documented to the Venini Company, and signed “Venini Murano Italia” underneath. The pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Opaline Glass, Glass
$4,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Venini Large Glass Dome Pendant Light by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana
By Venini
Located in Montclair, NY
A documented Venini chandelier designed by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, the director and designer of famed glass house Venini from 1959-1985. Dome shade is hand blown clear glass with green stripes suspended from a gold plate on brass metal rod and dome ceiling canopy.
Located in showplace antique + design center...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Brass
$1,495 Sale Price
35% Off
Large Vase of the 'Pesanti' Series, Paolo Venini for Venini, Murano 1952
By Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A large vase in thick amethyst glass with circular decoration on the neck. Designed by Paolo Venini in 1952, manufactured by Venini, Murano Venezia. Model number 1522. Acid stamp "ve...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Venini Murano Italian Blue Glass Bottle Incisi Serie, 1981
By Venini
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian light blue glass bottle with stopper, “Incisi” series, submerged glass with surface entirely worked by grinding produced by Venini Murano, Ve...
Category
1880s Italian Modern Antique Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Fulvio Bianconi for Venini, Murano Glass Bottle / Decanter, Signed, Label
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an original bottle without stopper, by the well known designer Fulvio Bianconi, has 3 acid marks and on top original foil label as shown in pictures.
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
Big Carlo Scarpa Venini Murano Glass Vase "Battuto" Series Acid Signed
By Venini, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Rovereta, Repubblica di San Marino
Big Carlo Scarpa Venini Murano glass vase "Battuto" series acid signed cm 33.5.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Venini Opalino Large Horizon Milk White Inside Glass Vase
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Satin glass vase, designed and manufactured by Venini, features the same shape of the iconic opalino vase with a frosted finish.
Indoor use only.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
Venini Opalino Large White Milk White Inside Glass Vase
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Satin glass vase, designed and manufactured by Venini, features the same shape of the iconic opalino vase with a frosted finish.
Indoor use only.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
Small Murano Reticello Glass Fazzoletto Vase, Italy 1950s
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Milan, IT
Small Murano Reticello Glass Fazzoletto Vase, Italy 1950s
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Paolo Venini Murano Signed Blue Inciso Technique Italian Art Glass Flower Vase
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso blue and peachy color Italian art glass flower vase. Designed by Paolo Venini, circa 1955 for Venini e. Co. The vase has an elegant taper...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Glass
$4,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid-Century Modernist Hand-Blown Murano Glass Cup by Venini
By Venini
Located in New York, NY
This minimal and beautifully formed Mid-Century Modernist Hand-Blown Murano Glass Cup by Venini originates from Italy, Circa 1970. Features a reserved cyllindrical composition with p...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Venini Murano Signed Teal Green Blue Italian Art Glass Teardrop Ring Dishes
By Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage set of 3 Murano hand blown teal green or blue Italian art glass small bowls or dishes. Documented to the Venini company, with 1 of them signed underneath. Would mak...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Glass
$600 Sale Price / set
33% Off
Rare Large Pair Murano / Venini Torchon Picture Frames, c.1950
By Venini
Located in Bath, GB
A rare and very large pair of vintage Italian Venini photograph frames, extremely heavy and in beautiful condition. The twisted glass is flecked with gold with gilded brass fittings....
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
$4,668 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Tapio Wirkkala Cup Filigrana for Venini Murano Signed, 1980s
By Tapio Wirkkala, Venini
Located in Milano, IT
Rare Murano hand blown dark amethyst/black "Filigrana Nera" cup. Excellent and very fine cylindrical cup with "black filigree" designed by Tapio Wirkkala for Venini, Murano, circa 19...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$1,328 Sale Price
20% Off
Venini Art Glass Vase of the "Quarzi" Series, Murano, 2004
By Venini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Venini Art Glass Vase of the "Quarzi" Series, Murano, 2004
A large vase of the "Quarzi" series by Venini, Murano 2004. Coral red glass with superimposed decoration in gold and silve...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Venini Vase 'Fazzoletto' in red, Venice Murano 1950s
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Venini Vase 'Fazzoletto' in red, Venice Murano 1950s
A vintage fazzoletto (handkerchief) vase in transparent red glass. Manufactured ca. 1950s by Venini...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Tomaso Buzzi Venini Venetian Large Tall Peach & Aventurine Art Glass Vase
By Venini
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and large Venetian Murano art glass vase in peach colored translucent overlaid glass with gold aventurine inclusions made by...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Gio Ponti and Venini, Morandiana model bottle, 1990.
By Gio Ponti, Venini
Located in Busnago, IT
Rare bottle by Gio Ponti for Venini, designed in the 1950s, from the Morandiana series. This specimen is a 1990 edition, Venini '90 signature engraved under the base, original cap. T...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Glass
Sogni Infranti Bowl by Mario Bellini for Venini Murano, 1992
By Venini, Mario Bellini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Sogni infranti bowl by Mario Bellini for Venini Murano 1992
A large bowl "Alzata" of the "Sogni infranti" (broken dreams) series. Designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by Venini Murano Venice in 1992. Clear iridescent glass with applications of remnants in polycrome glass. With company lable and incised signature "venini Mario Bellini 1992 / 39" on the base. This is one of the rare examples without any defect.
In 1921 Paolo Venini and Giacomo Cappellin founded a company that would become world famous. Under the artistic directions of Vittorio Zecchin the Vetri Soffiati Cappellin Venini & C. become the whiz kid of the golden 1920s. Over the decades, countless world-renowned artists like Napoleone Martinuzzi, Carlo Scarpa, Tomaso Buzzi, Fulvio Bianconi, Tuni Zuccheri, Thomas Stearns, Toots Zynski or Ettore Sottsass have enthusiastically worked for Venini, designing something very special with each of their new techniques and designs. The creations of Venini were honored with several awards. Till today Venini is one of the leading art glass manufacturies on Murano.
Measures:
Height: 10.63" (27 cm)
Diameter: 20.87" (53 cm)
Literature reference:
Franco Deboni, Venini Glass Volume 2, Turin 2007, platr 361
Fondatione Musei Civici Venetia, Mario Bellini A Murano, Milano 2018, page 25...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Venini Murano Italian Dark Red Glass Bottle Incisi Serie, 1980
By Venini
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian glass bottle with stopper, “Incisi” series, in two-color submerged glass with surface entirely worked by grinding produced by Venini Murano.
Venini 80 engraved signature unde...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$2,134 Sale Price
20% Off
Vase Merletto, Brigitta Carlsson and Ove Thorssen for Venini, Murano
By Ove Thorssen, Karlsson Brigitta, Venini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vase Merletto, Brigitta Carlsson and Ove Thorssen for Venini, Murano
A large vase of the Merletto series designed by Brigitta Carlsson and Ove Thorssen for Venini ca. 1972. Manufact...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Laura Diaz de Santillana "Munchen" 2-Piece Blown Glass Vessel for Venini Murano
By Laura Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in Miami, FL
Massive 1984 Venini blown and sculpted glass vessel by Laura Diaz de Santillana (b.1955) daughter of Anna Venini and Ludovico Diaz de Santillana. Laura joined Venini in 1976 and shar...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Organic Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Crystal
$3,040 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Cane" Stopper Bottle by Paolo Venini
By Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in New York, NY
Blown glass bottle form created with canes of blue & green colors.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Murano Blown Glass Neoclassic Chandelier Design by Carlo Scarpa Venini Official
By Venini, Carlo Scarpa
Located in murano, IT
Venini’s artistic director for more than a decade, Carlo Scarpa deeply influenced the company’s production, managing to merge his own intellectual vision with the highly refined tech...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Venini Rare High Society Inciso Shebert Glasses Set of 4
By Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare set of 4 sherbert High Society glasses circa 1975 by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana for Venini , great condition a rare set to find.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Venini Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Large Fazzoletto Vase by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini Murano
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Vienna, AT
Fulvio Bianconi for Venini Fazzoletto glass-vase Murano from 1981. Colorless glass with tape paterns. Signed on the buttom: Venini Italia 81. Dimensions approx. Height 19.5 cm, width...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Venini Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Venini glass for sale on 1stDibs.
Venini glass are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of glass and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Venini glass, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 184 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 26 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original glass by Venini were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider glass by Barovier&Toso, Ercole Barovier, and Archimede Seguso. Prices for Venini glass can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $142 and can go as high as $307,566, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,640.
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Questions About Venini Glass
- Where is Venini glass made?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025Venini glass is made in Italy. Specifically, its workshop is on the Venetian island of Murano. 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 skilled artisans who created extraordinary chandeliers, sconces and other lighting in the centuries-old glass workshops. While the company’s co-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 Gio Ponti, Massimo Vignelli, Tapio Wirkkala, Thomas Stearns and Fulvio Bianconi. Shop a variety of Venini glass on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertNovember 4, 2024To identify Venini glass, first look for markings, usually found on the base or interior of glassware. Over its long history, Venini used dozens of labels and acid-stamped marks on its pieces. You can find images of these marks on the pages of trusted online resources to compare to your piece. Keep in mind that Venini's foil labels tend to come off over the years, so a lack of a marking or label doesn't necessarily mean that your piece is not a Venini. However, there are many convincing replicas of Venini glassware. As a result, experts recommend consulting a certified appraiser or experienced antique dealer for assistance with the identification process, especially if you can't locate a label or acid mark. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Venini glass.