Paolo Venini and His Furnace

Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego

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Skira
01 December 2017

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Individual artists, art monographs

In-depth research based mainly on the unpublished materials coming from the Venini

Historical Archive. The protagonist of Murano glass in the twentieth-century, Paolo Venini (1895-1959),

with his passionate activity spanning almost forty years, made a decisive contribution

to the vitality of the art of glass, achieving extraordinary results soon recognized

internationally. A native of Milan and a former partner in the Cappellin Venini firm, in 1925

he founded the V.S.M. Venini & C. glassworks with Napoleone Martinuzzi and

Francesco Zecchin as partners, from whom he separated in 1932. Becoming president

of the company, he worked untiringly as the undisputed director and manager of the

Venini firm up to his death, which occurred in 1959. In defining the catalogue of the

glassworks, he also contributed as the inventor of new series of glass pieces in the

mid-1930s, but in particular during the 1950s. For the greater part of the three hundred models in this volume, Paolo Venini had recourse to the traditional Murano techniques, of which he gave a refined and innovative interpretation. The volume also documents the contribution of the artists who worked with him intermittently between the 1930s and the 1950s. Two hundred and fifty glass pieces tell the story of collaborations with Tyra

Lundgren, Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti, Eugene Berman, and Riccardo Licata, but also

the Americans Ken Scott and Charles Lin Tissot. To them must be added the architects

Massimo Vignelli and Tobia Scarpa, and the Norwegian designer Grete Korsmo.

By: Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego
Imprint: Skira
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 300mm, Width: 280mm,
Weight: 3.740kg
ISBN: 9788857233543
ISBN 10: 8857233545
Pages: 532
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marino Barovier is considered one of the greatest experts of glass art.