Venetian Glass. 1890-1990
Venice, Italy: Arsenale Editrice, 1993. 2nd Edition. Large quarto, publisher's white cloth, spine and upper board stamped in black, patterned endpapers, original photo-illustrated dust jacket, original photo-illustrated paperboard slip case.
Second edition of renowned Italian art historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti’s history of Venetian glassware. Tracing the evolution of the hand-blown glassware over the course of the late-19th to late-20th centuries, Mentasti charts the progression of Murano techniques from Art Nouveau and Art Deco to midcentury modernism and the Memphis style of the 1980s with examples by Carlo Scarpa, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Ettore Sottsass, Tyra Lundgren, Yoichi Ohira and Andries Dirk Copier. Alongside the historical chronicle is analysis and documentation of elite furnaces such as Venini, Barovier & Toso, Cappellin, Moretti, Salviati, and Seguso. Illustrated with over 200 color plates; with a bibliography. Originally published in 1992. Fine in unclipped dust jacket, light toning and soiling to slipcase. Item #13648
$75.00