Alongside Brazilian, American and Scandinavian design, 20th century Italian production occupies a central place in PIASA's sales.
This session devoted to Italian glassware from a private European collection offers collectors a glimpse of the diversity and virtuosity of the master glassmakers who, in Murano and elsewhere, raised this thousand-year-old technique to the highest level.
Pieces by creators such as Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) and Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996) demonstrate the links between glassmaking and other arts, including sculpture and painting.
Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996)
Born in Padua in 1915, Fulvio Bianconi began his career as an apprentice glassmaker in Murano under the direction of Michael Pinto. After experimenting in illustration and graphic design, he met the glassmaker Paolo Venini. His production is characterized by a great diversity of typologies (art objects, vases, lamps...). Eminently sensual, the shapes of his pieces are marked by a very marked chromaticism which is not without recalling abstract painting at that time.
Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996) Vase
Estimation : 20000 / 30000 €
This vase testifies to the inventiveness of this master glassmaker and the proximity of his entire work to painting. Inspired by the iconographic repertoire of the Serenissima, the decoration of this piece depicts gondoliers, rowing by hand, perched at the end of their densely coloured boat. 
Fulvio Bianconi (1915-1996) Plat
Estimation : 4000 / 6000 €
Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978)
After graduating in 1926, Carlo Scarpa taught at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice. The plastic possibilities of glass led him to contact the Cappellin glassworks, where he became their artistic advisor. He then explored the countless combinations between the chromatic nuances and tactile properties of the materials used.
Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) Plat
Estimation : 4000 / 6000 €
