1950s Glass

Incredible center piece in Murano glass by Ercole Barovier circa 1950.

Large Flavio Poli Seguso Vetri D’Arte Attributed Sommerso Art Glass Murano vase. Retains its original Paul’s distributor label. Very sleek and elegant design.

"Rostrato" vases are a peculiar 1930s design by Ercole Barovier, then owner and designer of the eponymous brand Barovier & Toso, based on the island of Murano. The brand is still act...

Incredible vase in Murano glass by Dino Martens to Aureliano Toso circa 1950 with applied glass and gold.

Large Murano Art Glass Vase in green Pulegoso glass with ribbed design scalloped Top. The vase is very tall for the era and stands alone.

Antique French set of 3 glass wine cups on a brass tray. Made by unknown manufacturer in France, circa 1950. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use,...

incredible Murano vase from the fifths attributed to Dino Martens to Aureliano Toso

Incredible center piece in Murano glass attributed to Ercole Barovier "Primavera" circa 1950

Incredible vase in Murano glass by Seguso Vetri d'Arte circa 1950

Scandinavian Modern Tapio Wirkkala Two Line Cut Crystal Art Objects Handblown Two freeblown crystal, line-cut art-objects, model 3132. Designed by Finnish artist Tapio Wirkkala in ...

Made in Italy, 1950s - 1960s. This wonderful vase / bottle is made in black and transparent mezza filigrana Murano hand-blown glass. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show s...

Incredible vase in Murano glass with gold and cornucopia applied by Archimede Seguso circa 1950.

Rainbow Art Glass Company (1942-1973); Rainbow Art Glass Co Hand Blown Deep Purple, Amethyst Insert Ribbed Round Vase. Made in West Virginia, USA ...

Incredible bowl in Murano glass style Venini circa 1960

Alfredo Barbini Murano glass sea shell sculpture in vibrant green art glass. Another amazing and large shell sculpture to complete your collecti...

Large Dino Martens Aureliano Toso Attributed Murano Art Glass Latticino Vase In vibrant multi color individual canes. Very well executed Murano art glas...

A set of two antique Demijohn glass bottles from Barcelona. Made by unknown manufacturer in Spain, circa 1950. In original condition with minor ...

A beautiful art glass object called the Moon Walk designed by the renowned Helena Tynell. Helena was the wife of the world famous Paavo Tynell and also a genious designer with a main...

Perfect pair of french candelabra in transparent glass for two candles

Timo Sarpaneva, Two Crystal Art-Objects "Heart", Model 3557, Iittala, Finland 1957 Two sizes, clear lead-crystal glass, cut and surface polished Art-objects / sculptures "Sydän" (He...

Elegant vintage Libbey barware frosted glasses with leaves pattern in a gold finish. Set includes eight highball glasses. Mid-Century Modern v...

3-1093 Murano art glass yellow and white sculpture.

incredible pair of candlesticks in Murano glass by Archimede Seguso in perfect conditions

Vintage opaline from Florence. This is a rare color and size, a must have for any collector. Looks simply stunning. The piece is in excellent condition and a real beauty! With best wishes, Geert ?Early Bird Gallery...

Murano art glass apple and pear Sommerso blue and purple designed by Alfredo Barbini. Both have two flat surfaces for display or can be used as bookend...

Vase in blown glass attributed to Fulvio Bianconi from Murano with hole in the center for a good grip.

Vaso em vidro artístico soprado de Murano com grossa camada de vidro e coloração contrastante de rosa e amarelo.

Incredible Murano blue vase with 50 style perfect for flowers, shelves or tables.

This is a large, massive duck sculpture from the 1950s made in the Sommerso and mezza filigrana technique. It is a decorative piece and was likely designed by Dino Martens for Fratel...

Made in Italy, 1980s. These flutes are made in very thin Murano glass. They can also be use as flower vases. They are vintage, therefore they might show slight traces of use, but the...

Very beautiful set of glasses and decanter in Lorraine crystal dating from the 1950s, consisting of: - 6 wine glasses - 6 water glasses - 6 flutes ...

Antique French set of 3 glass wine cups on a brass tray. Made by unknown manufacturer in France, circa 1950. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use,...

Grand Piano Sculpture in Murano Art Glass attributed to Ercole Barovier design Circa 1950’s. Amazing piano sculpture with sculpted legs, pasta glass ke...

Ercole Barovier Barovier and Toso Murano Cordonato D’Oro Vase, circa 1950s In reddish pink with gold highlights.

Set of three antique Spanish glass containers dedicated to preserve food. All of them presenting a cork cap. Made by unknown manufacturer in Spain, ...

Rare original vase by Dino Martens to Aureliano Toso repertoire in the book Dino Martens by Marc Heiremans model 5412.

Gorgeous and rare pair of wall sconces handcrafted from Murano Glass Master Fulvio Bianconi for Venini during the 1950s. Both wall lights are made of pink and white swirled Murano ar...

Charming glass decanter with its cut glass stopper. Carafe decorated with gilded edging and band of gilded foliage. Circa 1950.

Svend Palmqvist (1906-1984) for Orrefors, "Kraka" art glass bowl in checkered blue pattern. Approx. 1950s. In perfect condition. Dimensions: L 16 x H 6.5 cm.

Rare bowl for cigars in Murano glass attributed to Barovier e Toso, circa 1950.

Dino Martens for Aureliano Toso attributed Murano complicated cane patchwork bowl. Spectacular Workmanship and amazing design.

Vaso em duas tonalidades produzido por Archimede Seguso circa 1950 com tecnica "costolato oro" e folhas aplicadas na lateral.

A thoroughly delightful vintage cut glass jug from the mid-20th century. Condition: In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation. ...

1950s Retro style cocktail shaker. Metal lid with attached spoon. Glass design features various retro cocktail receipies.

Alfredo Barbini Murano glass shell sculpture in Bollicine glass with gold Highlights. Vibrant pink color.

A stunning and very large vintage Italian Murano Arte Vetrairia Muranese (AVEM) tutti frutti green glass dish by renowned designer Dino Martens (Italian, 1894-1970) and dating from a...

Romantic Murano glass tray. This tray features a reverse etched dancing couple in a lakeside garden under a tree. It also has a twisted rope glass b...

These 12 Swedish vintage Sommerso and dusk glass vases, produced circa 1950s-1960s by designer Nils Landberg for Orrefors, with smoked charcoal interior, cased within a clear layer. ...

Large Murano Art Glass Vase in Gold Pulegoso glass with Gold Applied Handles. The vase has a ribbed design. Sophisticated style and execution.

“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 Francois-Emile Decorchement (1880-1970) late Art Deco Pâtes de Crystal 'Loir' Paperweight. Designed 1952, Moulded as a dormouse, in browns and blues signed...

1950s set of three blue opaline glass items. Made in Italy The bright blue milk, opaline or cased glass is heavy and thick, all items have a decorative orm...

Fabulous large red, dark grey and clear textured and fluted glass vase. Measuring height approximately 30.5 cm / 12 inches, and the fluted top is dia...

Mid-Century Modern Murano vase, thick-walled glass with embedded flower decorations. It is a single flower vase, beautiful from every point of view.

Vintage opaline from Florence. This is a rare color and size, a must have for any collector. Looks simply stunning. The piece is in excellent condition and a real beauty!  ...

Vase by Per Lütken for Holmegaard , circa 1950, Denmark. "Labrador" model, aqua blue glass designed in 1958. Etched in the bottom Holmegaard, D, number 16912. Dimensions: 13 cm ...

Cubic Vase by Anatole Riecke for La Coupole, representing Jean Gabin, 1958 Vase by Anatole Riecke, Cubic, in black opaline, representing Jean Gabin, ...

Sea foam green 5815L Genie bottle decanter designed in 1958 by Wayne Husted for Blenko. Decanter measures 25" by 8.5" and is signed with the acid...