PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK GENTLEMAN Carlo Scarpa ‘Corroso’ vase, model no. 4105 circa 1936 Handblown ruby and amber corroso glass with applied decoration and iridized surface. 6 7/8 in (17.5 cm) high Manufactured by Venini, Italy. Underside acid-etched with 'venini/italia'.
Literature Marc Heiremans, Art Glass from Murano 1910–1970, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 250, fig. 203 Franco Deboni, Murano ’900, Milan, 1996, p. 275, fig. 191 Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921–1986, Milan, 2000, p.138 Marina Barovier, et al., Carlo Scarpa I vetri di Murano 1927–1947, Padua, 2001, pp. 70–71 Franco Deboni, Venini Glass, catalogue 1921–2007, Volume 2, Milan, 2007, pl. 78 Marino Barovier, ed., Carlo Scarpa Venini, 1932–1947, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2012, pp. 21, 212 Catalogue Essay The present form, distinguished by its asymmetric applied decorations at the base and side, appears as model number 4105 on plate 40 of Venini’s Catalogo Blu. Carlo Scarpa then artistic director of the company, first presented his thick-walled corrosi vases in 1936 at the XX Venice Biennale and the VI Milan Triennale. The rough surfaces of these works were produced by applying sawdust soaked in hydrofluoric acid. Read More Artist Bio 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. View More Works
PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK GENTLEMAN Carlo Scarpa ‘Corroso’ vase, model no. 4105 circa 1936 Handblown ruby and amber corroso glass with applied decoration and iridized surface. 6 7/8 in (17.5 cm) high Manufactured by Venini, Italy. Underside acid-etched with 'venini/italia'.
Literature Marc Heiremans, Art Glass from Murano 1910–1970, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 250, fig. 203 Franco Deboni, Murano ’900, Milan, 1996, p. 275, fig. 191 Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921–1986, Milan, 2000, p.138 Marina Barovier, et al., Carlo Scarpa I vetri di Murano 1927–1947, Padua, 2001, pp. 70–71 Franco Deboni, Venini Glass, catalogue 1921–2007, Volume 2, Milan, 2007, pl. 78 Marino Barovier, ed., Carlo Scarpa Venini, 1932–1947, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2012, pp. 21, 212 Catalogue Essay The present form, distinguished by its asymmetric applied decorations at the base and side, appears as model number 4105 on plate 40 of Venini’s Catalogo Blu. Carlo Scarpa then artistic director of the company, first presented his thick-walled corrosi vases in 1936 at the XX Venice Biennale and the VI Milan Triennale. The rough surfaces of these works were produced by applying sawdust soaked in hydrofluoric acid. Read More Artist Bio 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. View More Works
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