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Carlo Scarpa
Two small vessels, model nos. 3552 and 3635
- Estimate
- £300 - 500‡
£1,397
Lot Details
A bollicine coloured glass, sommerso a bollicine coloured glass with gold leaf inclusions.
circa 1935
Green: 4.8 x 5.5 x 5.4 cm (1 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
Red: 5 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm (1 7/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
Red: 5 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm (1 7/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
Produced by Venini & C., Murano, Italy.
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Carlo Scarpa
Italian | B. 1906 D. 1978Phillips Design has a deep-rooted passion for the work of Carlo Scarpa, one of the twentieth century's great poets, whose rhythms, lines and materials — a grammar of space — appeal both as a local response to the architect's birth city, Venice, and a universal language of ordered dynamism.
Carlo Scarpa graduated with a degree in architectural drawing from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1926. In the years that followed, he worked as a teaching assistant for a former professor, ran his own architectural practice in Venice and worked as a freelance artist for M.V.M. Cappellin glassworks. When M.V.M. Cappellin went bankrupt in 1932, Scarpa joined Venini & C. in Murano, where he served as artistic director until 1947. During his tenure at Venini, Scarpa developed a host of new techniques — in particular, mezza filigrano, a bollicine and corroso — that catapulted the centuries-old tradition of Venetian glassblowing to the forefront of modernist design.
Browse ArtistCarlo Scarpa graduated with a degree in architectural drawing from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1926. In the years that followed, he worked as a teaching assistant for a former professor, ran his own architectural practice in Venice and worked as a freelance artist for M.V.M. Cappellin glassworks. When M.V.M. Cappellin went bankrupt in 1932, Scarpa joined Venini & C. in Murano, where he served as artistic director until 1947. During his tenure at Venini, Scarpa developed a host of new techniques — in particular, mezza filigrano, a bollicine and corroso — that catapulted the centuries-old tradition of Venetian glassblowing to the forefront of modernist design.