Ashtrays

Paolo Venini was an Italian glassmaker and designer who transformed Venetian glassblowing into a modernist medium. Founded in 1921, his eponymous studio on Murano became a laboratory for experimental techniques including sommerso (layered colored glass) and surface treatments that moved beyond traditional decorative glass. His vessels and sculptural forms married precision engineering with craft intuition, establishing a vocabulary that influenced postwar Italian design and elevated studio glassmaking to fine art status.

Cusano Milanino, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy