Seguso Vetri D'arte Biography
Seguso Vetri D'Arte In 1933 a group of master glassmakers who had left Barovier & Co. decided to open their own glass factory, starting the Artistica Soffieria e Vetreria Barovier Seguso Ferro. The production consisted of recessed blown glass, stylized figurines, animals and succulents, vaguely in line with the fashions of the moment. In 1937 the glassworks took its current name Seguso Vetri d'Arte. The designer Francesco Poli, collaborating with some exceptional masters, such as Archimede Seguso, the master glassmaker who himself became a partner, focuses his interests on thick materials, enhanced by inclusions of metal particles or tiny air bubbles (bubbling glass). At the Venice Biennale of those years, the series of hot-molded glass animals met with great success, together with the corroded vases and sculptures in bubbling glass. After the war, some series of light vases, with polychrome bands, were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1948. Having reached full maturity, Flavio Poli designed a whole series of submerged pieces in the period 1950-1960, made of essential shapes, characterized by use of cold colors, sometimes enlivened by a thread in a contrasting color, and finished at the wheel, so as to obtain a more marked contrast between the thick base and the thin, almost sharp edges. However, it must be kept in mind that one of the sectors in which the company found its best expressions was that of lighting, designed above all for public spaces, large hotels, transatlantic ships, in Italy and abroad. The awards received by the company for these productions are countless, both in Italy and abroad: in particular the Compasso d'Oro in 1954, the Grand Prix at the four editions of the Triennale after the Second World War, and at Brussels International Exhibition of 1958. The company is still operational.
