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  • Literature

    Domus (Milan), no. 81, September 1934, p. 35 for examples from the Mezza filigrana series
    Domus (Milan), no. 83, November 1934, p. 25 for examples from the Mezza filigrana series
    Helmut Ricke and Eva Schmitt, Italian Glass Murano, Milan 1930-1970, Munich, 1997, p. 62, figs. 23-24 for examples from the Mezza filigrana series
    Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa: Glass of an Architect, Milan, 1999, pp. 112-13, figs. 7-8, p. 269, fig. 14, p. 272 for examples from the Mezza filigrana series
    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921–1986, Milan, 2000, p. 135, fig. 89 for a similar example
    Marc Heiremans, Murano Glass: Themes and Variations (1910-1970), Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 73-75 for examples from the Mezza filigrana series

  • Artist Biography

    Carlo Scarpa

    Italian • 1906 - 1978

    Phillips 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.

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Vase, from the 'Mezza filigrana' series

circa 1934-36
Mezza filigrana glass.
16.5 x 16 x 12 cm (6 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in)
Manufactured by Venini, Italy.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 ‡♠

Sold for £5,000

Design

27 September 2012
London