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1970s Venini Gocce Chandelier designed by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana

Name: 1970s Venini Gocce Chandelier designed by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana
Brand: Venini
Price: 4500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

A beautiful and rare Venini ceiling mount light designed by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, the son-in-law of Paolo Venini. This design is know as "Gocce" an Italian word for drop, as in water or rain drop. This design is less common and rare in comparison to other Venini lighting pieces. The ceiling mount is chromed steel and has three rows of suspended standard sockets. There are two rows of five outer sockets and one inner row of four sockets. Surrounding the sockets are 39 hand blown glass "Gocce" or drops in two lengths. The drops are approximately 26 inches and 33 inches in length. The ceiling mount measures 22 inches long and 15.5 inches wide. The total drop of the light fixture is 36 inches. The Gocce chandelier was designed in the early 1960s by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, son-in-law of Paolo Venini, and the company’s successor after Venini’s death in 1959. Santillana continued the classic Venini style while introducing new ideas into the art glass tradition, such as monumental glass architectural design. Trained as an architect, Santillana became famous for dramatic lighting installations that became focal points within their space. He was adept at creating the appearance of weightlessness in massive glass and steel structures, often appearing as the naturalistic drips and cascades of waterfalls. The term ‘gocce’ means ‘drops’ in Italian. In a single chandelier there are as many as 1,300 individually crafted, mouth blown crystal drops. Ranging in size from three to ten feet in length, the drops also have a six to eight inch circumference at their base. Each drop is secured with a metal cap with hook at its top which is then hangs from the polished steel metal frame. Other known examples of Gocce chandeliers include a group of six chandeliers (also available) for a bar in Northern Italy, and a set of chandeliers at the Manchester Airport, now part of a museum collection in the UK and recently featured in a BBC News story showing the chandelier hung in the St Helens World of Glass Museum.

Creator:

Venini (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Blown Glass,Chrome,Steel

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

Late 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1970s

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Some small and light scratches on bottom of chromed ceiling mount.

Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1029214151511

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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.