Vetreria Aureliano Toso
The Vetreria Aureliano Toso is in Murano in Venice -based company that deals to date in the production of glass objects and lamps.
history
The company's founder, Aureliano Tosso, comes from a long-standing Murano family of glass manufacturers. From the beginning Tosso worked with the Italian painter and designer Dino Martens , so that as early as 1942 on the XXIII. Biennale di Venezia the first series of design objects could be shown. These showed contrasting bands of color. Furthermore, thick-walled spiral glasses with different colored inclusions were created. In the early 1950s, Martens created, among other things, the Eldorado glass series from transparent ground glass and Oriente from opaque, ground glass in daring shapes that anticipate later Pop Art . Some objects show Murinnen , which consist of multi-colored glass rods. However, until Martens left the company in 1960, there were also simpler series of objects, such as the Puligoso series decorated with colored spots .
In later years, designers like Gino Poli and Enrico Potz worked in the manufactory, which was passed on to the founder's son, Gianfranco Toso. Since 1968 the glass factory has been producing lamps at the suggestion of Poli and based on his experience at Venini & Co.
literature
- Marc Heiremans: Vetreria Aureliano Toso, Murano 1938–1968 . en. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-3-89790-454-5 . Catalog of works.
Web links
- Company history (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where Orient and Eldorado are very close in Welt am Sonntag from July 24, 2016, page 58