Tomaso Buzzi, a floor lamp, Murano, Italy 1930s.
'Alga' glass with gold leaf, copper coloured metal base, later white textile shade, the foot stamped VENINI MURANO, total height 174.5 cm.
Slight wear, function not guaranteed, later shade.
Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator — Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th-century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and ‘30s — an approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano in 1932-33.
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