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1895
- 1959
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Entrepreneur
and designer. Born in Milan, a law school graduate, from 1921 through
the year of his death, he dedicated himself to the glasshouse he founded,
the Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Venini & C. (through 1925, Vetri Soffiati
Muranesi Cappellin Venini &C.). A man of marked entrepreneurial talent,
his goal from the very beginning was to expand his company’s influence
abroad and he sought the collaboration, as artistic directors, of the
most talented artists and architects of his time. He always worked at
the side of his designers, with the goal of anticipating and directing
taste, personally checking every collection produced by his furnace. His
confident esthetic choices, along with the fine quality of the products,
assured his glasshouse both critical and commercial success. He dedicated
himself personally to design from the Thirties: his Diamante glass pieces
date from 1936, and he created the murrine romane in collaboration with
Carlo Scarpa. Following the war, he created bottles with brightly coloured
stripes, vessels in mosaico zanfirico and mosaico tessuto, windows in
vetro mosaico, battuto vessels. In collaboration with Bianconi he created
vessels such as the fazzoletti which are a classic example of the production
of the Fifties, and were enormously successful.
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