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"Esagonali" Drinking Glass

Paolo VeniniWW-1933-014104

1933·Free-blown glass·6 × 2 7/8 in., 0.2 lb. (15.2 × 7.3 cm, 0.1 kg)

Gift of David A. Hanks, in memory of Larry Salmon, 1984

Catalogue

Year: 1933
Medium: Free-blown glass
Dimensions: 6 × 2 7/8 in., 0.2 lb. (15.2 × 7.3 cm, 0.1 kg)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Paolo Venini

Artist

Paolo Venini

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

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