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Midcentury Italian Murano Glass Table Lamp by Seguso Vetri d'Arte

Name: Midcentury Italian Murano Glass Table Lamp by Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Brand: Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Price: 763.59 USD
Availability: InStock

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Seguso Vetri d' Arte table lamp from the 1950s. Amber-coloured Scavo Murano glass. Biography Seguso Vetri d'Arte In 1933 a group of master glassmakers who had left Barovier & Co. decided to open their own glass factory, starting the Artistica Soffieria e Vetreria Barovier Seguso Ferro. The production consisted of recessed blown glass, stylized figurines, animals and succulents, vaguely in line with the fashions of the moment. In 1937 the glassworks took its current name Seguso Vetri d'Arte. The designer Francesco Poli, collaborating with some exceptional masters, such as Archimede Seguso, the master glassmaker who himself became a partner, focuses his interests on thick materials, enhanced by inclusions of metal particles or tiny air bubbles (bubbling glass). At the Venice Biennale of those years, the series of hot-molded glass animals met with great success, together with the corroded vases and sculptures in bubbling glass. After the war, some series of light vases, with polychrome bands, were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1948. Having reached full maturity, Flavio Poli designed a whole series of submerged pieces in the period 1950-1960, made of essential shapes, characterized by use of cold colors, sometimes enlivened by a thread in a contrasting color, and finished at the wheel, in order to obtain a more marked contrast between the thick base and the thin, almost sharp edges. However, it must be kept in mind that one of the sectors in which the company found its best expressions was that of lighting, designed above all for public spaces, large hotels, transatlantic ships, in Italy and abroad. The awards received by the company for these productions are countless, both in Italy and abroad: in particular the Compasso d'Oro in 1954, the Grand Prize at the four editions of the Triennale after the Second World War, and at the Brussels International Exhibition of 1958.

Creator:

Seguso Vetri d'Arte (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Diameter: 9.85 in (25 cm)

Lampshade:

Included

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Murano Glass

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1950-1959

Date of Manufacture:

1950

Condition:

Seller Location:

Milan, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2140337947652

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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.