Askos Handmade Jug in Mouth-Blown Glass
View Similar Items
Askos Handmade Jug in Mouth-Blown Glass
About the Item
- Creator:Angelo Mangiarotti (Designer),Poltrona Frau (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)Depth: 9.7 in (24.64 cm)
- Style:Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:Contemporary
- Production Type:New & Custom(Current Production)
- Estimated Production Time:Available Now
- Condition:
- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: FR-55121101stDibs: LU5798225600172
Angelo Mangiarotti
Italian architect, designer, teacher and urban planner Angelo Mangiarotti was a leading light in the international design community from the 1960s onward. While he was an adherent of the rationalist principles of purity of line and simplicity of construction, he sought to imbue his designs for coffee tables, dining chairs, sconces and other furnishings with a sense of character and lightness of spirit that was often lacking in late-20th-century modernist architecture and design.
Born in Milan, Mangiarotti studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic, graduating in 1948. Five years later, he won a visiting professorship at the Illinois Institute of Technology — beginning a peripatetic academic career that would see him teaching in numerous Italian institutions as well as in schools as far afield as Hawaii and Australia. He worked with Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and met such greats as Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius. He returned to Italy in 1955 and would go on to work on numerous industrial, residential, commercial and civic projects in his home country, most notably a group of six railway stations in Milan.
As a designer, Mangiarotti and the development of his career embodies the evolution of modernism in the latter decades of the 20th century. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, after early experiments in plywood furniture and one-piece foam-core seating — including the 1110 lounge chair for Cassina — Mangiarotti began to design using more classic materials, from delicate, curvaceous blown-glass table lamps for Artemide to chandeliers with crystal links for Vistosi.
In 1971, Mangiarotti introduced what became his signature designs: a series of tables in marble and other stones that featured “gravity joints,” their legs held in place by the weight of the tabletop. Tables in his Eros collection have muscular proportions that anticipate the robust, overscaled lines of postmodern works that would appear 10 years later: His Eccentrico table, for example, is a striking assemblage in marble featuring a top that is cantilevered dramatically on a canted columnar base.
But simplicity and practicality were consistently the primary watchwords of Mangiarotti’s designs. The purity and elegance of the objects he created offer a graceful counterpoint to a traditional decor, yet they have a singular sculptural presence that allows them to stand out powerfully in a modern interior.
Find vintage Angelo Mangiarotti furniture on 1stDibs.
Poltrona Frau
If an Italian soldier named Renzo Frau had never traveled to Great Britain and set eyes on a Chesterfield armchair, it is unlikely that legendary handcrafted furniture maker Poltrona Frau and its classic sofas, armchairs and vanities would exist today.
Upon completing his service in the Italian army during the early 1900s, the Sardinian-born Frau worked for faux leather manufacturing company Dermoide Patent in Turin. While at the firm, he was sent to England, where he became enamored with leather Chesterfield armchairs. Intrigued and inspired by their rolled arms and tall, imposing profile, Frau returned to Turin, where he started his own leather-upholstered furniture company, Poltrona Frau, in 1912. He began to import the sumptuous Edwardian seating for the high-end domestic market.
Frau made slight modifications to the English seat that he’d so admired, and among Poltrona Frau’s first successful designs was an iconic armchair in 1919 appropriately called the Chester. Believed to have been custom-made for Filiberto Ludovico of Savoy, Duke of Pistoia, the Chester reflected the era’s emerging Art Deco style. Frau’s chair was comfortable and functional, and he implemented the traditional upholstery technique capitonné, which refers to stuffing that is buttoned. The Chester featured a pouf and an arm that was possibly included to hold the Duke’s ashtray. The seat’s high-quality craftsmanship and integration of exquisite full-grain leather made it covetable among Italy’s elite.
When Renzo Frau died in 1926, Poltrona Frau was appointed furniture supplier to Italy’s royal family. The company furnished grand hotels, designed the interiors for Expo Turin 1928 and outfitted an Italian transatlantic ocean liner.
For more than a century, Poltrona Frau has collaborated with hundreds of leading architects and designers from around the world. It issued such iconic mid-century modern pieces as Gio Ponti’s Dezza armchair, the 1960s-era Dilly Dally vanity by Italian designer Luigi Massoni, stackable tubular steel Movie armchairs by Italian architect Mario Marenco and French architect Jean-Marie Massaud’s sleek, angular Kennedee office sofa.
Poltrona Frau has established showrooms all over the world and creates interiors for Italian automotive brands Maserati and Ferrari. The company is owned by Haworth and continues to introduce innovative, handmade home furnishings while occasionally gazing back into time — its Chester line, a modular seating system by Poltrona Frau CEO Nicola Coropulis and Roberto Lazzeroni, is a contemporary interpretation of the founder’s original Chesterfield-style seating.
Find vintage Poltrona Frau club chairs, coffee tables, desks and other furniture on 1stDibs.
- Rips, Small Pot in Mouth-Blown GlassBy Carina Seth Andersson, Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYA vase or a sculpture? Rips, by Carina Seth Andersson, fulfils both definitions: a vase for plants, flowers and branches whose strong formal and material presence also enables it to ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsBlown Glass
$1,050 / item - Rips, Large Pot in Mouth-Blown GlassBy Carina Seth Andersson, Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYA vase or a sculpture? Rips, by Carina Seth Andersson, fulfils both definitions: a vase for plants, flowers and branches whose strong formal and material presence also enables it to ...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsBlown Glass
$1,330 / item - Pura Bowl in White Carrara MarbleBy Angelo Mangiarotti, Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYThe intuitive and sculptural design of Angelo Mangiarotti is embodied in two objects of timeless charm. A remake of the crystal version designed in 1988, the Pura bowl...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Decorative Bowls
MaterialsCarrara Marble
$2,350 / item - Leather Pot Large Glass Vase Covered in Nest Leather Colour Salgemma 'Rock Salt'By Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYLeather pot is a transparent glass and soft leather for a family of open vases that can be mixed and matched or used on their own. The Leather Pot vases collection, designed by Poltr...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsLeather, Glass
- Leather Pot Large Glass Vase Covered with Nest Leather Colour Marte RedBy Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYLeather pot is a transparent glass and soft leather for a family of open vases that can be mixed and matched or used on their own. The Leather Pot vases co...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsLeather, Glass
- Leather Pot High Glass Vase Covered with Nest Leather Colour Marte RedBy Poltrona FrauLocated in New York, NYLeather pot: transparent glass and soft leather for a family of open vases that can be mixed and matched or used on their own. The Leather Pot high vase, d...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
MaterialsLeather, Glass
- Murano Pitcher with Handle in Light Mouth Blown Artificial Glass, 1960sLocated in Copenhagen, DKMurano pitcher with handle in light mouth blown artificial glass, 1960s. Designed with bubbles in the glass mass. In perfect condition. Measures: 24.5 x 15 cm.Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
$320 Sale Price20% Off - Hand Blown Dimple Design Handled Stylish Art Glass JugLocated in Bishop's Stortford, HertfordshireAn unusual hand blown art glass handled jug with a dimple design body in opaque green glass with blue patterning dating from the 20th century. Probably continental the tall and elega...Category
20th Century Czech Modern Glass
MaterialsBlown Glass
- Jozefina Glass Works Krosno Polish Vintage Hand Blown Art Glass JugBy KrosnoLocated in Bishop's Stortford, HertfordshireA stunning tall and elegant hand-blown Polish art glass jug attributed to the Jozefina Glass Makers, Krosno and dating from around 1980. The Josefi...Category
20th Century Polish Modern Pitchers
MaterialsBlown Glass
- Baccarat, France, Art Deco Jug in Crystal Glass, Three Jugs AvailableLocated in Copenhagen, DKBaccarat, France. Art Deco jug in mouth-blown crystal glass with gold decoration in the form of leaves. 1930s. Three jugs are available. Measures: 15,5 x...Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Pitchers
MaterialsGlass
$480 Sale Price / item20% Off - Thistle Cameo Glass Jug by Daum NancyLocated in New Orleans, LAThis splendidly carved cameo glass jug, crafted by the renowned Daum Nancy, is a captivating work of skillfully etched and painted decoration. This carafe displays a dramatic botanical motif, with twisting thistles accented with hand-applied enamel and gilt details set against the warm orange hue of the translucent glass background. Such precise, vivid cameo scenes...Category
Early 20th Century French Other Glass
MaterialsGlass
- Victorian Mount Washington Attributed Satin Floral Glass JugBy Mount Washington Glass WorksLocated in Bishop's Stortford, HertfordshireUnusual Victorian Mount Washington attributed satin cranberry glass jug enclosing white ‘cameo’ style flowering branches dating from the latter 19th c...Category
Antique 19th Century American Victorian Glass
MaterialsBlown Glass