Mid-Century Tessuto White and Crystal Murano Glass Chandelier from Venini, 1970s

Amazing Mid-Century White and Crystal “Tessuto” Murano Glass Chandelier. This wonderful object was produced in Italy in the 70s by Venini. Woven Glass created by Carlo Scarpa for Venini in the 1930s; similar to filigree but obtained using very thin reeds joined with alternating colors and flattened to form strips similar to fabric ribbons, joined and manipulated to obtain the desired design. This is an exceptionally beautiful chandelier due to the state of the piece, the size of the light but above all the subtlety of the Tessuto Murano Glass. A stunning piece of lighting with infinite elegance that will complement an art deco or mid-century living room or entryway perfectly. The Chandelier uses a single E26/27 light bulb. Scarpa was born in Venice. Much of his early childhood was spent in Vicenza, where his family moved when he was 2 years old. After his mother’s death at the age of 13, he moved with his father and brother to Venice. Carlo attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he concentrated on architectural studies. Graduated from the Academy of Venice, with the title of Professor of Architecture, he was apprenticed to the architect Francesco Rinaldo. Scarpa married Rinaldo’s niece, Nini Lazzari (Onorina Lazzari). However, Scarpa refused to take the pro forma professional exam administered by the Italian government after World War II. Consequently, he was not allowed to practice architecture without associating with an architect. Therefore those who worked with him, his clients, collaborators, craftsmen, called him “professor” rather than “architect”. His architecture is deeply sensitive to the changes of time, from seasons to history, rooted in a sensual material imagination. He was Mario Botta’s thesis supervisor together with Giuseppe Mazzariol; the latter was Director of the Querini Stampalia Foundation when Scarpa completed the renovation and garden of that institution. Scarpa taught interior design and decoration at the University of Architecture in Venice from the late 1940s until his death. While the majority of his built work is located in the Veneto region, he has designed landscapes, gardens and buildings for other regions of Italy, Canada, the United States, Saudi Arabia, France and Switzerland. His name has 11 letters and this is used repeatedly in his architecture. One of his last projects, the Villa Palazzetto in Monselice, which remained unfinished at the time of his death, was remodeled in October 2006 by his son Tobia. This work is one of Scarpa’s most ambitious landscaping and garden projects, despite the Brion Sanctuary. It was made for Aldo Businaro, the Cassina representative who made Scarpa’s first trip to Japan. Aldo Businaro died in August 2006, a few months before the completion of the new staircase of Villa Palazzetto, built to commemorate Scarpa’s centenary. In 1978, while in Sendai, Japan, Scarpa died when he fell down a flight of concrete stairs. He survived ten days in hospital before succumbing to his injuries from his fall. He is buried standing up and wrapped in linen sheets in the style of a medieval knight, in an isolated outer corner of his he L-shaped Brion Cemetery at San Vito d’Altivole in the Veneto. In 1984 the Italian composer Luigi Nono dedicated to him the composition for orchestra in microintervals to Carlo Scarpa.