Saiar Ferro Toso Biography
SAIAR- Ferro Toso (1895 - 1936), a company founded in 1895, produced the first known works of "modern" taste. The murrine vases, designed by the Swede Anna Akerdahl, wife of the graphic designer Guido Balsamo Stella, were presented in 1920 at the Exhibition of Italian Industrial and Decorative Art in Stockholm. In 1923 he created a series of thin, light blown glasses that he continued to produce over the years, with slight modifications. He also successfully attempted the creation of lamps with geometric shapes, in milky glass, designed by Guido Balsamo Stella, Vittorio Donà, Anita Antoniazzo, to whom the magazine Casa bella dedicated an extensive article in 1929. In the same year he opened the shop in Turin Sambuco, designed by architects Pagano Pogatschnig and Levi-Montalcini, with furniture made by Ercole Morlotti and curtains by Lenci. In addition to the glass from SAIAR Ferro-Toso, artistic ceramics by Lenci, Chini, Primavera and Rouard were offered to the public. It participated in the 1930 Triennale in Monza and the 1932 Biennale. The furnace merged with Barovier & C. in 1936, giving rise to Ferro-Toso-Barovier, which after two years became Barovier-Toso & C.
