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After
World War I, during which the furnace had temporarily been moved to Livorno,
the company changed its name to Vetreria Artistica Barovier when it added
several new partners in 1919; among them were Ercole and Nicol˜, Benvenuto
Barovier's sons, and Napoleone, Giuseppe's son . Ercole and Nicol˜ Barovier
took over the management of the company in 1926 and became artistic directors,
creating among other things sophisticated polychrome vessels a murrine
and singular animals in blown glass. After 1932 Nicol˜ and Ercole Barovier
became sole proprietors of the glasshouse; Ercole was responsable for
the many objects which decreed the remarkable success of the company (the
Primavera series for example). A tireless creator of collections and vitreous
textures, Ercole dedicated himself to perfecting hot colouring without
fusion which he began to use during the second half of the Thirties. In
1936, after the separation from his brother Nicol˜, Ercole became partner
of the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso, forming the Ferro Toso e Barovier, which
in 1939 became Barovier Toso & C. and in 1942 Barovier & Toso.
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