
Catalogue
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Blown glass
- Dimensions
- 7 1/8 x 6 3/4" (18.1 x 17.2 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern 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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- Paolo Venini
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Blown glass
- Dimensions
- 7 1/8 x 6 3/4" (18.1 x 17.2 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1938-M002936
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





