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Venini & Co., Murano, Italy
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Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Glass from the Museum of Modern Art Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955–1956
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The Modern Movement in Italy: Architecture and Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950–1951
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Venini & Co. is a Murano glassworks founded in 1921, renowned for pioneering modernist approaches to blown and cast glass. The studio developed a distinctive aesthetic combining geometric clarity with jewel-like color saturation, rejecting the ornamental excess of earlier Venetian traditions. Its postwar output defined a new language for glass as a sculptural material, balancing industrial precision with artisanal craft. The works remain exemplary of twentieth-century Italian design.
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