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Two Signed Vintage Venini Hourglasses Designed By Paolo Venini For Venini
By Paolo Venini
Located in Doraville, GA
A pair of vintage Venini "Clessidre" or hourglasses designed by Paolo Venini in the 1950's. The
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Blown Glass

Clessidra Hourglass, Paolo Venini, Venini Murano 'Italy'
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brussels, BE
The hourglasses designed by Paolo Venini in 1957 were exhibited at the Triennale di Milano the same
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Venini Murano glass incolor hourglass circa 1950
By Venini
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
incredible Venini Murano glass incolor hourglass circa 1950.
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Vintage 1950s Italian International Style Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Small Clessidra Hourglass in Grey & Red
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini Clessidre glass vase in Gray/red. Limited edition in 199 art pieces for each color. Color
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases

Materials

Glass

Clessidra Glass Hourglass in Grey and Red by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini glass hourglass in grey and red. Perfect for indoor home decor or as a statement piece for
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

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Art Glass

Venini Two Colors Mini Hourglass/Clessidre, Unsigned
By Paolo Venini
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a great and rare find because is one of the small hourglass ever made by Venini. Also this
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Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Glass

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Murano Glass

Clessidra Hourglass in Gray and Red Glass by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, impalpable and imperceptible as a whole, yet so real, like time passing. Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

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Glass

Clessidra Hourglass in Bamboo and Aquamarine Glass by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, impalpable and imperceptible as a whole, yet so real, like time passing. Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Grape and Pink Murano Glass
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in grape and pink Murano glass by Paolo Venini and Riedizione. Limited edition
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Grape and Pink Murano Glass
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in grape and pink Murano glass by Paolo Venini and Riedizione. Limited edition
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Amber and Pink Murano Glass
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in grape and pink Murano glass by Paolo Venini and Riedizione. Limited edition
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Orange Indigo Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

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Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Horizon Amber Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

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Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Grape Red Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Amber Horizon Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber Murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

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Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Grey Acquamarine Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

21st Century Large Clessidra Hourglass in Aquamarine/Bamboo by Venini
By Venini
Located in murano, IT
. Clessidra – designed by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini in 1957 – evolves in 2015, taking on a more sinuous
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Large Clessidra Hourglass in Grey/Red by Venini
By Venini
Located in murano, IT
. Clessidra – designed by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini in 1957 – evolves in 2015, taking on a more sinuous
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Small Clessidra Hourglass in Grey/Red by Venini
By Venini
Located in murano, IT
. Clessidra – designed by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini in 1957 – evolves in 2015, taking on a more sinuous
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Small Clessidra Hourglass in Aquamarine/Bamboo by Venini
By Venini
Located in murano, IT
. Clessidra – designed by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini in 1957 – evolves in 2015, taking on a more sinuous
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Sapphire Cipria Pink Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Red Straw Yellow Murano Glass
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Sapphire Cipria Pink Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Amber/Light Pink by Paolo Venini
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
Clessidra 420.10 Ø14 H30 AA/RS Additional Information: Material: Glass Color: Amber/Light Pink Dimensions: Ø 14 x H 30 cm Available in other color options: Grape/light pink.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

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Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Grape/Light Pink by Paolo Venini
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
Clessidra 420.10 Ø14 H30 UV/RS Additional Information: Material: Glass Color: Grape/Light Pink Dimensions: Ø 14 x H 30 cm Available in other color options: Amber/light pink.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

Venini Clessidra Hourglass in Apple Green Straw Yellow Murano Glass
By Fulvio Bianconi, Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidra hourglass in amber murano glass by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi. Little grains of
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern More Clocks

Materials

Murano Glass

Venini Clessidre Glass Hourglass in Pink and Gray by Fulvio Bianconi
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Clessidre Hourglass, designed by Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi, was originally designed in 1957
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Crystal and Red by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando Time Hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Crystal and Aquamarine by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando time hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Pink and Red by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando Time Hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Grape and Bamboo by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando Time Hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Grape and Red by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando Time hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Ando Time Hourglass in Pink and Straw Yellow by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ando time hourglass, designed by Tadao Ando and manufactured by Venini, is a limited edition of 49
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Set of 2 Hourglasses Murano Clear Ribbed Studio Art Glass Objects Venini Style
By Cenedese, Venini, Barovier&Toso, Seguso
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A lovely pair of optical blown art glass hourglasses with a ribbed surface by unknown artist.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks

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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass

Superb Italian Murano Chandelier Venini Style, 1960s
By Venini
Located in Rome, IT
Vintage chandelier made by 48 fantastic Murano glass hourglass. Height without chain 100cm.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Chandeliers and Pendants

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Metal

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Apple Green/Straw-Yellow
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

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Glass

Grande Midcentury Chandelier Designed by Venini with Murano Glass Tubes 1950s
By Venini
Located in Almelo, NL
Grande midcentury chandelier designed by Venini with Murano glass, Italy 1950s This grande
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Metal

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Indigo/Orange by Fulvio Bianconi E Paolo
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Amber/Horizon by Fulvio Bianconi E Paolo
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Aquamarine/Grey by Fulvio Bianconi E Paolo
By Venini, Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Grape/Red by Fulvio Bianconi E Paolo
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

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Glass

Paolo Venini Murano Signed Blue Inciso Technique Italian Art Glass Flower Vase
By Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
/ hourglass shape. It is signed underneath "Venini Murano Italia" along the edge, and has a large circular
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases

Materials

Glass, Art Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Red/Straw-Yellow by Fulvio Bianconi E Paolo
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Rose Cipria/Sapphire by Fulvio Bianconi E Pa
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Clessidra Hourglass in Rosa Cipria/Green Rio by Fulvio Bianconi E P
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Venini
Located in murano, IT
. In 1957, Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini captured time and shaped it into Clessidra. Perfectly
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Aquamarine/Crystal/Green by Tadao Ando
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
A colorful hourglass enclosed in glass. Space meets time in its architecture. The sand flow carries
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Bamboo/Grape/Horizon by Tadao Ando
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
A colorful hourglass enclosed in glass. Space meets time in its architecture. The sand flow carries
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Alexandrite/Grape/Red by Tadao Ando
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
A colorful hourglass enclosed in glass. Space meets time in its architecture. The sand flow carries
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Crystal/Grape/Red by Tadao Ando
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
An austere face, halfway between ancient and modern, strong and fragile. Giotto by Alessandro Mendini is a winged lord who is destined to hold our gaze. A psychic being whose narrow ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

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Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Grey / Light Pink/Red by Tadao Ando
By Tadao Ando, Venini
Located in murano, IT
A colorful hourglass enclosed in glass. Space meets time in its architecture. The sand flow carries
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

21st Century Ando Time Hourglass in Amber Yellow/Light Pink/Violet by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in murano, IT
A colorful hourglass enclosed in glass. Space meets time in its architecture. The sand flow carries
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian More Clocks

Materials

Glass

Gio Ponti for Venini Old Lady Bottle Model 4492
By Gio Ponti, Venini
Located in New York, NY
Gio Ponti for Venini "Old Lady Bottle" with stopper model 4492, Italy, 1990. This lovely bottle
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass

Materials

Blown Glass

Venini Limited Edition Ando Time Hour Glass Set in Crystal by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
”. Perhaps metaphorically an hourglass can denote architecture. The flow of the sand carries along the
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Limited Edition Ando Time Hour Glass Set in Grape by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
”. Perhaps metaphorically an hourglass can denote architecture. The flow of the sand carries along the
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Venini Limited Edition Ando Time Hour Glass Set in Pink by Tadao Ando
By Venini, Tadao Ando
Located in Brooklyn, NY
”. Perhaps metaphorically an hourglass can denote architecture. The flow of the sand carries along the
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Mid-Century Modernist Polyhedral Pendant w/ Geometric Brushed Aluminum
By Venini
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Mid-Century Modern chandelier was realized by the esteemed atelier of Venini in
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Aluminum

Large Wall Light, Venini, Italy, circa 1950
By Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Located in New York, NY
Single wall light made up of numerous strands of clear ribbed glass elements in an hourglass shape
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Brass

Fantastic Venini Hourglass -- Vintage Clessidre
By Venini
Located in New York, NY
Rare vintage Venini hourglass made of fused glass in beautiful jewel tones of sapphire and emerald
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Vintage 1950s Italian Glass

Paolo Venini Murano Hourglass
By Paolo Venini
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful hourglass by Paolo Venini. Made in Italy, circa 1960s.  
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories

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Art Glass

1957 Paolo Venini for Venini & C. Murano Glass "Clessidra" Series Acid Signed
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Chisinau, MD
Hourglass in transparent glass green and grey, designed by Paolo Venini in 1957 for Venini Murano
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Mid-20th Century European Glass

Materials

Art Glass

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Venini & Co. (Italy)

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 in the centuries-old glass workshops on the Venetian island of Murano. While the company’s 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 Giò Ponti, Massimo Vignelli, Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala, Thomas Stearnsof 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 took over the company as his own in 1925, and under his direction it produced mainly classical Baroque designs. In 1932, he 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 century — Venini has produced one of the truly great bodies of work in modern design.

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