new quantity illustrates venini’s century-old historical past
‘VENINI. The magic of glass’ celebrates 100 years of refined collections and collaborations in a new quantity. The lately printed e-book spotlights the vivid journey of the Murano-based glassmaker, unveiling a collection of pictures that honor the model’s historical past. The quantity is split into themes, encompassing particular contents, archive pictures, famend signatures, and particular contributions from masters reminiscent of Ettore Sottsass, Tadao Ando, Alessandro Mendini, Mario Bellini, Peter Marino, Massimiliano Fuksas, Fabio Novembre, amongst others.
VENINI’s starting was marked in 1921 as an emblem of timeless design, custom, and creativity. Based by Paolo Venini and Giacomo Cappellin as a household undertaking centered round magnificence, immediately it’s a part of the Damiani Group, persevering with its unparalleled supply of ardour and craftsmanship.
Revealed by Rizzoli and created with the assist of Intesa Sanpaolo, ‘VENINI. The magic of glass’ is dotted with pictures taken by Lucrezia Roda, strolling the reader by means of the VENINI glassware universe. Because the reader leafs by means of the e-book, they will immerse in a burst of colours, analyzing the items within the glass furnaces, the cold and warm processing strategies, and excellent collectible items.
Venini, The magic of glass, Rizzoli
searching VENINI’S world of glass
‘The eagerness we now have skilled since childhood attracted us to the excellence of this firm, but additionally the a number of affinities between the jewellery world and that of blown glass. VENINI’s grasp glassmakers, like DAMIANI’s grasp goldsmiths, protect an age-old custom of gestures, secrets and techniques, magic, and a technical potential that they put to the check on daily basis, reaching ever greater ranges of artwork, perfection, consideration to element and innovation,’ says Silvia Damiani within the e-book’s preface. ‘This distinctive, unrepeatable, priceless artisanal worth, handmade in Italy, finds its most expression within the creativity and design aptitude that underpin each VENINI’s and DAMIANI’s type and character.’
The itinerary comprises the model‘s iconic works exhibited on this planet’s most vital museums, reminiscent of ‘Fazzoletto (1949)’, a collaboration between Paolo Venini and Fulvio Bianconi at New York’s MoMA. The items play with transparencies, volumes, shapes, and colours, highlighting VENINI’s signature id. The model’s assortment contains iconic items reminiscent of ‘Medusa’ and ‘Nebulosa’ by Sottsass, the cylinder vases by Thomas Stearns, Fragments by Fernando and Humberto Campana, and the tableware assortment by Ambasciata.
picture ©Lucrezia Roda
‘VENINI is an integral a part of what I like about Venice. It promotes the age-old tradition of the artwork of hand-blown glass,’ explains Peter Marino, writer of the foreword. ‘I’m not the primary designer to sense the creativity of all of the architects and designers who’ve handed by means of VENINI since 1921. Working with VENINI is a novel expertise as a result of it’s the solely glassmaker to have revolutionized Murano glass by contaminating an historic custom with up to date design. I used to be excited by the prospect of my ideas, my concepts, my impulses coming into the VENINI world, with its colors and originality, and opening up a brand new manner for my creativity to precise itself.’
picture ©Lucrezia Roda
picture ©Lucrezia Roda
