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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION Carlo Scarpa Very rare “flashed” glass vase, model no. 5971 ca. 1930 Bloomed black glass with red pâte de verre trim. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high Produced by Maestri Vetrai Muranesi Cappellin & C., Italy.
Provenance Muriel Karasik Gallery, New York Exhibited "The Venetians: Modern Glass 1919–1990," Muriel Karasik Gallery, New York, October 27–December 2, 1989 Literature William Warmus ed., The Venetians: Modern Glass 1919–1990, exh. cat., Muriel Karasik Gallery, New York, 1989, illustrated p. 15; Rita Reif, "Venetian Glass: Ancient Designs, Modern Accents," The New York Times, November 5, 1989, p. H42 for a discussion of the vase; Marc Heiremans, Art Glass from Murano 1910–1970, Stuttgart, 1993, p. 88 for a period illustration of the model at the IV Triennale, Monza, and p. 89 for a drawing; Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa Glass of an Architect, Milan 1999, p. 98 for a drawing and p. 258 for the same period illustration 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