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The exhibition Tomaso Buzzi at Venini, curated by Marino Barovier, opens to the public on September 14th, 2014, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. It is the third exhibition dedicated to the history of the Venini glassware company organized by Le Stanze del Vetro, a long-term cultural initiative launched by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, devoted to the study and the promotion of the art of glassmaking in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

The Milanese Architect Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981) was a lively protagonist of the so-called “Novecento Milanese”. He was friend with Gio Ponti – with whom he collaborated – and partner of "Il Labirinto" – a group that included architects and entrepreneurs such as Gio Ponti, Michele Marelli and Paolo Venini – aiming at “promoting the modern decorative arts in today’s households”. Together with Gio Ponti, Tomaso Buzzi became one of the most important creators of the Italian gusto of the 1930s, for the elegance and refinement that he brought to the applied arts. A cultured architect, a curious designer, a sophisticated interior designer, as well as a collaborator of the magazine Domus, he worked with the greatest personalities in the Italian upper middle class: Volpi, Cini, Visconti, among many others. 

Between 1932 and 1933 Tomaso Buzzi began his collaboration with the Venini glassware company, which would continue, albeit episodically, in later years. Buzzi’s creative contribution was characterised by experimentation with both materials and forms. Indeed, his broad research included lighting designs, thereby helping to reveal a new facet of Murano’s traditional glass craftsmanship.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Skira will publish the first complete “catalogue raisonné” of Tomaso Buzzi’s glass work, edited by Marino Barovier with Carla Sonego.

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