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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Flavio Poli

Flavio Poli (1900-1984) was an Italian designer and businessman. He was born in Chioggia and attended the Istituto d'Aret di Venezia. He began his career as a designer of ceramics but switched to glass in 1929 when he went to work for Libero Vitali's I.V.A.M.

While there he designed animals and  nude figures, as well as bowls and urns with figures resting on the inside, on lids or as handles. He later worked with the Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, with Mario and Lino Nason and with engraver Gino Francesconi.

In 1934 he accepted the position of artistic director for Barovier, Seguso & Ferro, which later became Seguso Vetri d'Arte and became a partner three years later. Together with Archimede Seguso, he created grand lighting installations, acid-corroded (corroso) vessels and glass sculptures. At the height of his career, in the years between 1950 and 1960, he designed a series of sommerso (cased) glass pieces in a Scandinavian style 
which won a number of prestigious prizes.

He left Seguso in 1963 and organized the glass division at Società Veneziana Conterie e Cristallerie.

From barovier.it

Sommerso lamp
quintessentia.com
Sommerso vase
vandm.com
Floor lamp
dailyicon.com
Fish sculptures
collectorsweekly.com
Geode sommerso bowl
antiquehelper.com
Candlesticks
fossilfly.com
Corroso horse
antiquehelper.com
Sommerso vase
antiquehelper.com
Lamp
zezschwitz.de
Sommerso bowl
retrodesign.it
Triangular sommerso vase
parfemtevaningen.com
Glass bird
danripley.com
Sommerso vase
museovetro.visitmuve.it
Corroso bowl
abdeon.com
Chandelier
deconet.com

Friday, September 24, 2010

Glass masters

1950s glass, once called “the collectibles of the future,” has lived up to its name. The exquisite bottles, bowls and vases from Europe and America that graced almost every twentieth century home have now become highly coveted collectors’ items.

Beautiful glass was created by Italians Paolo Venini, Fulvio Bianconi, Dino Martens, Aldo Nason, Flavio Poli and Carlo Scarpa. Scandinavians such as Sweden’s Sven Palmqvist and Vicke Lindstrand, Denmark’s Per Lutken and Otto Brauer, as well as Finland’s Tapia Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva and Kaj Franck satisfied America’s love of dramatic shapes in both clear glass and vibrant colors.

Produced in the United States and perhaps somewhat less exotic to middle-class Americans than European designs were the pieces that came from Blenko, Fenton and Viking. What they lacked in mystique, they made up in accessibility, because almost every mid-century home had a Blenko decanter or carafe, Fenton milk glass or a Viking swung vase.

Most of these pieces were purchased purely for their decorative value and were affordable in almost every home, marking a departure from a time when only the wealthy could own such luxuries.



Fulvio Bianconi
italian-glass.net

Carlo Scarpa
italian-glass.net

Sven Palmqvist
freeformsusa.com

Per Lutken for Holmegaard - Flamingo, 1958
freeformsusa.com

Otto Brauer for Holmegaard
freeformsusa.com

Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta
freeformsusa.com

Tapio Wirkkala for Iittala
1stdibs.com

Timo Sarpaneva "Devil's Eye" for Iittala, 1951
botterweg.com

Blenko decanter by Wayne Husted, 1959
blenkomuseum.org