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Carlo Scarpa: Visions in Glass, 1926-1962 Christie's (Book)
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A Private European Collection New York 4th May 2017
Before Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) began designing some of Italy’s most celebrated modernist buildings, he spent more than 20 years experimenting with Venetian glass. His glassware is now highly collectible and regarded as a milestone in modernist decorative art.
Scarpa grew up in the Veneto region of Italy, and Venice was a source of inspiration throughout his career. In 1926, the year he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, he started work at M. V. M. Cappellin glassworks. At the time, Venice was experiencing a renewed interest in its cultural heritage. Glassmaking was one of Venice’s oldest traditions and Scarpa was a keen supporter of its revival.
‘Scarpa engaged in glassmaking as a way of knowing Venice, his place in the world, and the city’s history, culture and architecture,’ explains Robert McCarter, Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. ‘Glass is inextricably linked to Venice and represents the roots of Scarpa’s creativity.’
Little is known about Scarpa’s role at Cappellin, but it offered the necessary experience for him to join Venini glassworks as an artistic consultant in 1932. Scarpa spent the next 15 years with Venini, pushing the boundaries of Venetian glassblowing techniques. One of the first styles he pioneered was the bollicine, named after the tiny bubbles of air suspended within the glass. Two years later, he developed the mezza filigrana style, creating very thin glassware decorated by internal swirling lines.
These new styles not only challenged Scarpa as a designer, but also the glassmakers who blew them, as Franco Deboni, one of the world’s leading experts on decorative glass, observes: ‘Scarpa’s glass was so radical and innovative for its time. You can see it in the colours, shapes, textures and quality of execution,’ he says. ‘When you start to analyse the glass, you also realise how extremely complex it was for the master blowers to execute.’
In addition to pioneering new techniques, many of Scarpa’s designs reinterpreted ancient designs using modern methods. His murrine romane combined the traditionally round murrina patterns with the square tiles of Roman mosaics. Likewise, his cinesi series was directly inspired by the shape and opacity of Chinese celadon porcelain vases. 243 pages. Paperback. 1500 grams.
- Dimensions:Height: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)Width: 9 in (22.86 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:2017
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:North Yorkshire, GB
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