Skira Glass at Le Stanze Del Vetro

The latest in Skira’s exhaustive series on the great Italian glassmakers, Toni Zuccheri at Venini documents the career of Italian artist, architect, designer, sculptor and poet of glass and nature, Toni Zuccheri (1936–2008). The son >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246659
US $69.95 CAN $94.95 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock

This substantial overview explores Finnish designer and sculptor Tapio Wirkkala (1915–85) and his output for the famous Murano glass company Venini. Creator of the Finlandia vodka bottle and designer for companies such as Ittala, Wirkkala’s >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246666
US $69.95 CAN $94.95 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 560 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 In stock

This is the first English-language volume on Maurice Marinot (1882–1960), a pioneer in the development of glass as a studio art form.

Initially a member of the fauves, in 1911 Marinot visited the glassworks of the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857240473
US $50.00 CAN $69.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/25/2019 Out of stock

American artist Thomas Stearns (1936–2006) collaborated with the legendary Venini glassworks as a guest designer between 1960 and 1962. Stearns was the first American to design for Venini; he won a Fulbright Travel Grant, left >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857241005
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock

In-depth research based mainly on the unpublished materials coming from the Venini Historical Archive. The protagonist of Murano glass in the twentieth-century, Paolo Venini (1895–1959), with his passionate activity spanning almost forty years, made a decisive >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857233543
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.8 in. / 532 pgs / 1722 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock

Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini presents, for the first time, the entire glass production of Murano painter and glassmaker Vittorio Zecchin (1878–1947) at the two storied glassworks.

Between 1921 and 1925, Zecchin served >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857237121
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 472 pgs / 1530 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock

From transparent glass to milky glass, from delicate simple shapes to Phoenician designs, in over 400 pages and 900 images, The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa tells an essential chapter in the >>more

Skira Paris
ISBN 9788857239255
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 560 pgs / 2,520 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock

The brilliant architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) designed glass wares from 1947 until the end of his career. He established a working relationship with the glass makers on the Venetian island of Murano during >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857235356
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.75 in. / 328 pgs / 579 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock

Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Venice, this volume presents over 300 works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections. It >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857232447
US $60.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 328 pgs / 379 color / 379 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/21/2017 In stock

A new volume from the project “Le Stanze del Vetro” dedicated to Finnish glass design. ?This richly illustrated volume features artworks from 1932 to 1973 in the Bruno Bischofberger Collection, bringing together 330 masterpieces in >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857227610
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 10/06/2015 Out of stock

A splendid catalog devoted to the work of an artist who was responsible for some of the most original glass artworks in art history. Napoleone Martinuzzi became a partner of leading Murano glassmaker Paolo Venini >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857221403
US $100.00 CAN $130.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.25 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 1780 color.
Pub Date: 10/14/2014 In stock

A splendid catalogue devoted to the work of an artist who was responsible for some of the most original glass artworks in art history. Through around 300 works, documents, and original drawings from private collections >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857214733
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.25 x 12 in. / 492 pgs / 1640 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2013 Not available

The refined output of vases and bowls by the great architect and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse. An architect, designer, interior decorator, and columnist for Domus magazine, Tomaso Buzzi (1900–1981) was one of the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857222479
US $90.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 448 pgs / 1000 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2015 Not available

The refined output of vases, bowls, and animals by the great graphic artist, illustrator, and designer for the long-standing Venetian glasshouse.