Vittorio Zecchin : transparent glass for Cappellin and Venini / edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego.
"Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) at the two storied glassworks. Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served as artistic director of the V.S.M. Cappellin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Milano :
Skira Editore S.p.A.,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) at the two storied glassworks. Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served as artistic director of the V.S.M. Cappellin Venini & Company glassworks, founded in 1921 by the Venetian antiquarian Giacomo Cappellin and the young Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini to offer a sophisticated, modern style of glass production. Responding to the demands of the firm and its customers, Zecchin created startlingly modern monochrome blown-glass pieces with extraordinary colors and elegant, minimal lines, a radically new style for glass that marked a decisive turning point in the 20th-century history of Murano. Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini reconstructs for the first time the entire collection of transparent blown-glass pieces designed by Zecchin between 1921 and 1926, first for Cappellin and Venini and then for Cappellin alone. It includes a sequence of about 900 luminous objects (from vases to compote bowls, from table services to chandeliers), painstakingly identified following rigorous research, and extensively illustrated here with new photography, plus a selection of largely unpublished period photographs and drawings. A major contribution to the history of design, this volume casts new light on the modernist master of Murano glass."-- |
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| Item Description: | "Exhibition organized by Le Stanze del Vetro Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia." First published in Italy in 2017 by Skira editore S.p.A. |
| Physical Description: | 471 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-471) |
| ISBN: | 9788857237121 8857237125 |
| Language: | Translated from the Italian. |