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Venini Midcentury "Tessuto" White and Crystal Murano Glass Chandelier, 1970s

Name: Venini Midcentury "Tessuto" White and Crystal Murano Glass Chandelier, 1970s
Brand: Venini
Price: 2023.57 USD
Availability: InStock

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Stunning Mid Century White and Crystal "Tessuto" Murano Glass Chandelier. This beautiful object was produced in Italy in the 70s by Venini. Woven Glass created by Carlo Scarpa for Venini in the 1930s; similar to filigree but obtained using very thin reeds joined with alternating colors and flattened to form strips similar to fabric ribbons, joined and manipulated to obtain the desired design. This is an exceptionally beautiful chandelier due to the state of the piece, the size of the light but above all the subtlety of the Tessuto Murano Glass. A stunning piece of lighting with infinite elegance that will complement an art deco or mid-century living room or entryway perfectly. The Chandelier uses a single E26/27 light bulb. Scarpa was born in Venice. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family moved when he was 2 years old. After his mother's death at the age of 13, he moved with his father and brother to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he concentrated on architectural studies. Graduated from the Academy of Venice, with the title of Professor of Architecture, he was apprenticed to the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo's niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari). However, Scarpa refused to take the pro forma professional exam administered by the Italian government after World War II. Consequently, he was not allowed to practice architecture without associating with an architect. Therefore those who worked with him, his clients, collaborators, craftsmen, called him "professor" rather than "architect". His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensual material imagination. He was Mario Botta's thesis supervisor together with Giuseppe Mazzariol; the latter was Director of the Querini Stampalia Foundation when Scarpa completed the renovation and garden of that institution. Scarpa taught interior design and decoration at the University of Architecture in Venice from the late 1940s until his death. While the majority of his built work is located in the Veneto region, he has designed landscapes, gardens and buildings for other regions of Italy, Canada, the United States, Saudi Arabia, France and Switzerland. His name has 11 letters and this is used repeatedly in his architecture. One of his last projects, the Villa Palazzetto in Monselice, which remained unfinished at the time of his death, was remodeled in October 2006 by his son Tobia. This work is one of Scarpa's most ambitious landscaping and garden projects, despite the Brion Sanctuary. It was made for Aldo Businaro, the Cassina representative who made Scarpa's first trip to Japan. Aldo Businaro died in August 2006, a few months before the completion of the new staircase of Villa Palazzetto, built to commemorate Scarpa's centenary. In 1978, while in Sendai, Japan, Scarpa died when he fell down a flight of concrete stairs. He survived ten days in hospital before succumbing to his injuries from his fall. He is buried standing up and wrapped in linen sheets in the style of a medieval knight, in an isolated outer corner of his he L-shaped Brion Cemetery at San Vito d'Altivole in the Veneto. In 1984 the Italian composer Luigi Nono dedicated to him the composition for orchestra in microintervals to Carlo Scarpa

Creator:

Venini (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Diameter: 15.75 in (40 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Art Glass,Chrome,Glass,Murano Glass

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1970-1979

Date of Manufacture:

1970s

Condition:

Seller Location:

Roma, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3067323066402

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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.