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Seguso Mid-Century Modern Large Textured Italian Green Murano Glass Vase 1980s

About the Item

Absolutely stunning and rare Seguso large, heavy vintage Mid-Century Modern textured Italian glass vase by Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano, Italy, circa 1980s / early 1990s. Elegant in form and showing extraordinary craftsmanship with the beautiful green/ turquoise colored / coloured sandblasted textured glass and four round balls or globes as handles - these seem to have a gold colour - perhaps fine powdered gold inclusions within the glass and shows the 'corroso' technique which involves using acids to corrode the surface of the glass - an absolutely wonderful example of Seguso Vetri D'Arte's work in a very rare large size. A magical piece of Italian Venetian glass. Would sit well with pieces by the German / American designer Karl Springer for example. This piece is in excellent vintage condition. .

Creator:

Seguso Vetri d'Arte (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 10.83 in (27.5 cm)Width: 11.62 in (29.5 cm)Depth: 9.06 in (23 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Blown Glass,Murano Glass,Sandblasted

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

Late 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1980-1990

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Landau an der Isar, DE

Reference Number:

Seller: SEGUSO-SANDBLASTED-TURQ-w/BALLS1stDibs: LU1835337692632

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Seguso Vetri d'Arte

Members of the Seguso family have been leading figures in the manufacture of glass on the Venetian island of Murano since the late 1300s, but for most collectors of vintage design the name evokes two companies formed in the first half of the 20th century. Seguso Vetri d’Arte, born from a small consortium of master glass artisans that included Archimede Seguso (1909–99), thrived under the artistic directorship of Flavio Poli (1900–84), a designer with an eye for modern forms, color and pattern. Vetreria Archimede Seguso, meanwhile, was founded in 1946, when Seguso opened his own atelier in order to employ classical techniques in the making of modern glassware.

The owners of Seguso Vetri d’Arte were justly proud of their skills as craftsmen, but they were not worldly aesthetes — and they knew it. Poli had studied at the Art Institute of Venice, originally working in ceramics before switching mediums and taking up the art of glass. He introduced new simple forms to the genre — the best known of his designs being the Valva, which resembles a clamshell in profile — and employed several novel techniques such as corroso, which gives glass a rough, emery-board-like finish. Poli’s most collectible works are his sommerso pieces, made with a layering process in which clear and colored-glass vessels are “submerged” within one another, producing a kind of nesting-doll effect in striking, elegant vases with bands of separate and overlapped hues.

At his eponymous workshop, Archimede Seguso often favored highly decorative, age-old techniques employed with modern restraint. His layered-glass Losanghe vessels have the look of an abstract checkerboard while his free-form Merletto vases have delicate, lacy patterns created by painstakingly twisting two heated glass straws to create helixes around the walls of the piece.

Though different in their scope and mission, both of these furnaces bearing the Seguso name created some of the most beautiful, alluring and exquisitely crafted works in all of modern design.