Furniture

Murano Art Glass 'Spira Aurata Striato Vase' by Ercole Barovier, Barovier e Toso, Italy, 1966. Spira Aurata series oval-section drop vase in blown green-blue glass with polychrome g...

Incredible big Murano vase by Barovier&Toso with gold cordone serie circa 1948.

Extraordinary yet elegant oak wood chairs by Carlo Scarpa. Carlo Scarpa (2 June 1906 – 28 November 1978) was an Italian architect, influenced by the...

Midcentury Barovier Toso Murano glass lamp. Glittery pale pink translucent glass and antiqued brass hardware. Lamp shade not included. Harp add...

Murano glass chandelier produced in the mid-1960s by Barovier & Toso (Venice). This beautiful round vintage chandelier consists of 16 finely finished glass tubes and a large sheet of ice glass...

This Italian dining table from the 1970s exudes timeless elegance and beauty. It was designed by perhaps one of the prominent Italian modernist designers of the last century. What im...

Set of three wall lamps in hand blown Mid-Century Modern style Murano glass, produced by Barovier & Toso in the 1980s. Featuring flower blossom detailing. The glass is filled with bu...

Stunning, Barovier and Toso Murano blown glass wall sconces/lamps. If you are looking for a stylish and timeless way to bring light into your entry hall, bathroom, kitchen or bedr...

Murano art glass table lamp with avventuirna and tall bronze base by Barovier & Toso. Italy, 1960s. Shows wear and time. Lampshade not included.

A large blue art glass vase from the 'Efeso' series designed by Ercole Barovier in 1964 for Barovier & Toso, Murano, Italy. Thick glass in bright blue w...

Carlo Scarpa rare "Cornaro 220" Sofa by for Simon International, Italy, 1970s Additional Information: Materials: Stained mahogany, velvet, brass, leather Dimensions: 26" H x 119...

Vintage Italian wall light with Murano glass cups hand blown in "reticello" technique to form crisscross pattern of white filaments, mounted...

Vintage Italian flush mount with smoky hand blown Murano glass flowers / Made in Italy in the 1960s by Barovier e Toso 2 lights / E12 or E14 type / max 40W each Measures: Diameter ...

A wonderful B.A.G Barovier & Toso Czech Republic Art Glass signed vase. Etched on the underside of the vase it reads "B.A.G" but I cannot make out ...

Great Murano bowl acid signature, Venini Murano Italia" 3 line. This bowl was made in several finish and type of glass, bullicante, summerso, inciso, corroso, etc. Documented in Carlo Scarpa book...

Magnificent ceiling light designed and manufactured by Barovier&Toso. Its extremely detailed. The glass is in a light blue color, rare to find since they mostly where produced in tra...

This exquisite sconce is crafted by the legendary Murano glass studio, Barovier and Toso. The clear shade is decorated with "Bullicante", which in Italian literally means "full of bubbles". To get the controlled bubble effect, a metallic mold with spikes comes in contact with molten glass. The spikes create small holes on the surface of the glass, creating a pattern. After it’s been left to cool down for a few moments, the whole piece is submerged in molten glass again. This second layer completely covers the first one. The layering process is repeated several times. The holes previously impressed on the first layer are not covered, thus causing air to be trapped between the layers of glass in the desired pattern. It is finished off with a finial of gold aventurine, whereby the glass has gold inclusions. Aventurine, as its name suggests, is a decoration made by "aventitius" surface effects with flecks of gold, a 15th century technique. The result is this magnificent, exquisitely crafted, wall light, full of subtle texture and dynamism. Has been rewired to meet US electrical standards and uses one base light bulb with a maximum of sixty watts. We recommend using LED lights because they help preserve the antique fixture...

Barovier & Toso Multi-color Murano Glass Vase Offered for sale is a fabulous handblown Barovier & Toso multi-color Murano glass vase. This spectacular work of art is signed on the b...

Italian wall lights with clear textured Murano glass shades mounted on brass frames / Made in Italy by Barovier e Toso, circa 1950s. Original mark on the backplate. Measures: height ...

Original vintage Murano Barovier & Toso gold dusted art glass bowl, decorative object, element or ash tray was produced in the 1970s in Murano, Italy. It is made in the classical Mur...

Vintage Murano Art Glass Flacon by Barovier & Toso (attr.) circa 1950 A beautiful Murano glass flacon most probably manufactured by Barovier & Toso, Italy circa 1950s. Heavy hot mou...

Lampadario Barovier e Toso Vetro di Murano con inclusioni di bolle d’aria, originale del 1940. Condizioni perfette.

Spectacular large flush mount chandelier model 'Arethusa' with individually handcrafted Murano glass flowers on a chromed metal structure. Chandelier illuminates beautifully and offe...

Pair Barovier and Toso Murano glass lamps by Ercole Barovier white with silver flecks. Applied clear band and applied circular rings. Glass height is 17.25. Measurements without harp...

Incredible mid century Murano crystal glass leaf wall sconce with brass fixture. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy by Barovier & Toso during the 1950s. Each sconce is outsta...

Barovier & Toso Orange Murano Glass Vase Offered for sale is a spectacular handblown Barovier & Toso orange Murano Glass Vase. The vase is signed on the...

Vintage Italian wall lights with hand blown Murano glass cups hand blown with bubbles inside the glass using Bollicine technique, mounted on brass frames / Made in Italy by Barovier ...

A pair of midcentury Murano art glass table lamps by Barovier & Toso. Hand blown aqua blue glass with colorful murrines and silver foil. Original brass tone cast brass and black pain...

Article: Murano glass bowl, ashtray element Producer: Barovier and Toso Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1970s This original vintage glass bowl element...

This thick chunky vintage Murano hand blown glass bowl is by the noted Barovier e Toso Dual of master glass blowers and artists. It is triple cased with tons of gold aventurine and b...

Rare blue murano glass leaf-form wall lights by Barovier & Toso. Italian, circa 1960. Each light is in the form of a leaf with a spiral twisted stem and set on gilt backplates. The r...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown gold flecks Italian art glass ribbed surface pitcher / vase. Documented to designer Ercole Barovier, for the Barovier e Toso Company. The piece ha...

Fireworks is a Murano blown glass chandelier by Barovier e Toso. Armrests adjustable in all positions up or down, Italy, 1990s. The Barovier artistic glassworks has existed since ...

A set of two elegant up lights/table lamps by Barovier& Toso. Beautifully made art glass with swirls and trim with gold flecks.

Incredible petite mid-century Murano crystal glass amorphous form wall sconce with brass fixture. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy during the 1950s. Each sconce is outstan...

Barovier & Toso Murano Clear and light blue Rostrato glass vase, Italy, 1950s Vintage / mid-century / Art Deco Blue Murano art glass vase made wit...

“Poliedri” chandelier designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by the Italian manufacturer Venini in, 1958. Made of opaline Murano glass. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. Only a year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity; from 1927, he began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building which stands on the banks of the Grand Canal, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, which are all worth mention. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the first of many works which were to follow in the nineteen fifties: the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and shows clearly Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how twentieth-century museums were to be set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his greatest ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of the Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) and at the Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider being one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions which were to make the most of his formal skills, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa as well as another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa began work building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem”, [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure”. Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded 8 years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana”, “Quatour” and “Orseolo”. While in 1974, they added couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...

A hand blown Italian flush mount chandelier featuring overlapping crystal flowers, gold with 23-carat gold leaf fleck inclusions, mounted on a basket frame. The fixture requires two ...

A hand blown glass globe / sphere with stunning reticello glass design, wiith brass stem and canopy. Designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, circa 1940. A c...

Barovier and Toso Murano Art Glass dog sculpture in pink and opalescent glass Designed by Ercole Barovier. Amazing quality and execution.

Article: Murano glass vase element "LENTI" by Barovier and Toso Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1960s This original vintage glass vase element was designed by ERCOLE BAROVIER...

A brass and murano glass wall mirror designed and produced by Barovier & Toso, Italy, 1940s.  

Couple Table Lamps.

Handblown Murano Italian footed glass table lamp with lots of gold inclusions, by Barovier & Toso. Rewired with new full range socket and French style rayon covered cord. This stylis...

Ercole Barovier for Barovier and Toso Murano Glass Striato Vase Signed Barovier and Toso. Amazing control and detail on clear foot. Notice the subtle applied gold leaf.

Handcrafted Murano glass table lamp with Rigadin and Bullicante decoration and Avventurina throughout. Base banded in brass. By Barovier & Toso, Italy 1950s. Shows wear and age. Lamp...

Barovier & Toso Murano Art Glass very large blue and clear vase A huge 32 cm high and very thick hand-blown blue and clear glass with gold flakes in an upwardly tapering model wit...

Vintage Italian wall lights with frosted opaline Murano glass shades and clear ribbing mounted on brass frames / Made in Italy by Barovier e Toso, circa 1950s Original mark on the b...

Carlo Scarpa "Argo" oval table for Simon Gavina, Roman travertine, Italy, 1975. The "Argo" travertine console-table is part of the 'Ultrarazionale' ...

An iconic set of 12 chairs designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Auditorium in Via della Conciliazione, Rome on a project by Architect Marcello Piacentini 1950 this set from the first a...

12 Light chandelier designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini , Model 99.37 in Murano Italy. This Chandelier originally designed in 1940 was manufactured in 2009. All the pieces are in ...

Carved glass, mirror, brass, wood. Table mirror with torchon-glass frame. Mirror center with brass surround. Movable brass stand in rear. Signed on rear with makers stamp.

A pair of cute table lamps designed and produced by Barovier & Toso from the 1940's in rostrato Murano glass. Easy to place anywhere such as beside the bed or on a window sill. Fitte...

An extraordinary Venetian organic sculpture pair of crystal clear Murano glass modern wall lights by Barovier Toso, with a cone shape, realized using the Rostrato technique that Baro...

Splendid Murano glass vase designed by Barovier & Toso in 1977, of fine Italian manufacture. The vase is made entirely of light yellow Murano glass with sinuous and captivating shap...

Flush mount ceiling light by Barovier & Toso. Thick opaque glass covered by clear glass with fine scattering of gold flecks. Glass details and florets are in clear and gold. Metal mo...

This vase was produced in Italy, more precisely in Murano, Venice by Barovier & Toso, which is an Italian company that specializes in Venetian glass. The vase is in powder pink sub...

Vintage photo frame with hand blown clear and light blue Murano "Torciglione" glass border / Designed by Barovier e Toso circa 1960's / Original mark on frame / Made in Italy Measur...