A Rare Vase 'A fasce con grande spirale applicata'
Carlo Scarpa (Venedig 1906 - Sendai/Japan 1978)
Lot-No. 460
Venini, Murano. Designed 1938, made soon after. Glass, gold powder meltings. H. 31 cm. At the bottom inscibed venini murano (etched). Baluster-shaped vase of transparent glass with gold powder fusions, the body decorated with surrounding plastically applied spiral bands - Literature: Vetri di murano. Stile, colore e design. 1925-1975. Padua, 2006, p. 27 - Carlo Scarpa was born in Venice, Italy in 1906. after graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1926) he became an assistant to Professor Guido Chrilli and began teaching at the Architectural Institute of Venice University. During the late 1920s and 1930s Carlo Scarpa became acquainted with a number of influential intellectual figures in Italy and abroad. Massimo Bontempelli, Carlo Carra, and Arturi Martini became his friends. It was during this time that Carlo Scarpa also began a relationship with the Venini glass works in venice, for whom de created many designs.
Carlo Scarpa: A Rare Vase 'A fasce con grande spirale applicata'
Carlo Scarpa (Venedig 1906 - Sendai/Japan 1978)
A Rare Vase 'A fasce con grande spirale applicata'
Lot-No. 460
Venini, Murano. Designed 1938, made soon after. Glass, gold powder meltings. H. 31 cm. At the bottom inscibed venini murano (etched). Baluster-shaped vase of transparent glass with gold powder fusions, the body decorated with surrounding plastically applied spiral bands - Literature: Vetri di murano. Stile, colore e design. 1925-1975. Padua, 2006, p. 27 - Carlo Scarpa was born in Venice, Italy in 1906. after graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1926) he became an assistant to Professor Guido Chrilli and began teaching at the Architectural Institute of Venice University. During the late 1920s and 1930s Carlo Scarpa became acquainted with a number of influential intellectual figures in Italy and abroad. Massimo Bontempelli, Carlo Carra, and Arturi Martini became his friends. It was during this time that Carlo Scarpa also began a relationship with the Venini glass works in venice, for whom de created many designs.
