Venini - Darpanah table lamp 

The association between the designer-architect Ettore Sottsass and the vitreous matter, which exists since the post-war period, has resulted in an avant-garde production since the seventies in which elementary geometric shapes, with strong contrasting colours, are assembled into complex structures, in line with his architectural designs.

Designer Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer. His work included furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, home and office objects, as well as many buildings and interiors. He grew up in Turin and graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino in 1939. In 1947, in Milan, he founded his architecture and industrial design studio, where he began to create work using various media. In 1956, Sottsass moved to New York and began to work in George Nelson’s design studio. Back in Italy, he established major collaboration projects with Poltronova (1957) and Olivetti (1958). From the late ’60s and throughout the ’70s he collaborated with Superstudio and Archizoom Associati, within the Radical movement, until the foundation of Memphis Group in 1981, of which he was a founding member. In the mid-’80s, with Sottsass Associati, mainly an architecture studio, he also designed elaborate shops and showrooms, company identities, exhibitions, interiors, Japanese consumer electronics, and furniture of all kinds. Ettore Sottsass was presented numerous international awards, winning the ADI Compasso d’Oro in 1959. His work is on show in the permanent collections of many museums around the world such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Centre G. Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Venini

For more than a century, the best master glassmakers and artists have met at the Fornace, founded by Paolo Venini, giving life to a story of excellence and innovation that begins in Italy but later spread all over the world.
The excellence of this brand is the result of the special combination of the exclusive techniques of the Murano tradition. The latter are guarded by the wisdom of the most skilled glassmakers masters, the experimental creativity of artists from all over the world. This is because in the Fornace nothing is left to chance.
Moreover, the high quality is the reflection of the constant search for perfection and the passion for innovation that characterize each stage of realization, in a perfect balance between manual craftsmanship and daring creativity, far from the fads.

Finally, choosing VENINI means making your own a work of art of inestimable value, for culture, beauty and workmanship.