Barovier & Toso Rostrato Chandelier, Italy, 1970s

Name: Barovier & Toso Rostrato Chandelier, Italy, 1970s
Brand: Barovier&Toso
Price: 5250.35 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Barovier & Toso Rostrato ice glass chandelier, Murano, Italy 1970s. 8 lights e27, heavy clear hand-blown glass , rewired Lamp body 31 x 15 x 10 inches, original total height 26 inches. Barovier & Toso is one of the oldest family businesses in the world, founded in 1295 as Barovier and specialized in Venetian glass. The company's headquarters is currently based in the Palazzo Contarini in Murano, Italy. It was not until 1936 that the Barovier family merged with the Toso family's Fratelli Toso Glassworks, to form Barovier & Toso, specializing in crystalline glass, mother-of-pearl glass, and gold-free cornelian red glass. Our chandelier is in good vintage condition, carefully cleaned and rewired. Ercole Barovier designed the first of these typical glass pieces in the early 30s of 20th century. The brass & black laquered surfaces show some signs of use (patina & small scratches, most on the top side), which don´t disturb the elegant impression. The valuable handblown hand-cutted strong-walled glass pieces with large barbs (rostris) have some minimal mistakes, unvisible by using and make elegant illumination. The total width of the body is 31 x 15 inches x 10 inches high and the total original height 26 inches.

Creator:

Barovier&Toso (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 31 in (78.74 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass,Metal

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1970-1979

Date of Manufacture:

1970s

Condition:

Rewired.

Seller Location:

Berlin, DE

Reference Number:

Seller: cc.Luka1stDibs: LU983531992382

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Partnerships come and go within the community of glass-making artisans on the Venetian island of Murano, where business relationships seem as complex as the shifting alliances in the notoriously acrimonious Italian parliament. Formed in 1942 by members of families with centuries of experience in the craft, Barovier, Toso & Co. has proven to be one of the most enduring and prosperous Italian glass manufactories of recent decades. Under the nearly 50-year artistic directorship of cofounder Ercole Barovier (1889–1974), the company created buoyant traditional pieces such as chandeliers and sconces, and it pioneered an array of innovative modernist designs with bold colors, patterns and surfaces.

To appeal to gentler, more conservative tastes, Barovier Toso produced a range of lilting, sinuous lighting pieces that are often described as embodying “Liberty Style” — the Italian term for Art Nouveau, taken from the name of the famed London department store that promoted 19th-century organic textile designs in the manner of William Morris. The hallmarks of the style in Barovier & Toso works are elements of glass in the shape of thick leaves, fronds and flower petals, deployed along with other naturalistic ornament in sconces, pendants and chandeliers.

Ercole Barovier began his personal aesthetic transition toward modernism in the 1930s with his Primavera series of vases and animal sculptures — idiosyncratic milky-white and clear glass filled with tiny bubbles and hairline interior fissures that he produced for Artisti Barovier, a firm headed by his father and uncle. Later, with Barovier Toso, he would explore such novel styles as the mosaic-like Pezatto glass; fluid Spiral patterns; the pebbly textured Barbarico line and the complex, layered and highly colored abstractions of the Oriente series of vases and bowls.

Traditional or modern, Barovier Toso — still under family control — has produced one of the finest and most diverse catalogues of Murano glass in the last 100 years.