Vittorio Zecchin
Subtitle: transparent glass for Cappellin and Venini
By: edited by Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego
Contributors: Barovier, Marino, editor; Sonego, Carla, editor; Stanze del vetro (Organization)
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9788857237121
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Glass artists; Vetri soffiati muranesi Cappellin Venini & C.; Exhibitions; Art glass
Description: "Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) at the two storied glassworks. Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served as artistic director of the V.S.M. Cappellin Venini & Company glassworks, founded in 1921 by the Venetian antiquarian Giacomo Cappellin and the young Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini to offer a sophisticated, modern style of glass production. Responding to the demands of the firm and its customers, Zecchin created startlingly modern monochrome blown-glass pieces with extraordinary colors and elegant, minimal lines, a radically new style for glass that marked a decisive turning point in the 20th-century history of Murano. Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini reconstructs for the first time the entire collection of transparent blown-glass pieces designed by Zecchin between 1921 and 1926, first for Cappellin and Venini and then for Cappellin alone. It includes a sequence of about 900 luminous objects (from vases to compote bowls, from table services to chandeliers), painstakingly identified following rigorous research, and extensively illustrated here with new photography, plus a selection of largely unpublished period photographs and drawings. A major contribution to the history of design, this volume casts new light on the modernist master of Murano glass."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Exhibition organized by Le Stanze del Vetro Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-471).
Table of contents: title: Vittorio Zecchin : from painting to glass  -- Marino Barovier; title: Vittorio Zecchin and the new season of Murano Glass  -- Carla Sonego; title: Vittorio Zecchin the artist as producer  -- Nico Stringa; title: Panthers, clouds, enchantment : Visual imagination in the textile design of Vittorio Zecchin  -- Stefania Portinari; title: The works  -- Marino Barovier and Carla Sonego; title: Guide for the reader --; title: With foot --; title: With handles --; title: With decorations --; title: With no decorations --; title: Ribbed --; title: Small vases --; title: Fruit --; title: Compote bowls and bonbonières --; title: Dinner services --; title: Candlesticks --; title: Chandeliers.