Fratelli Toso

Fratelli Toso
Author: Leslie Piña
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764320262

Of all the leading Muranese glass factories, Fratelli Toso was among the most versatile and productive, but the least well-known. Where Venini, Barovier & Toso, Aureliano Toso, Archimede Seguso, Salviati, Cenedese, Barbini, and others designed, produced, and marketed fabulous glass, Fratelli Toso focused on design and production. The first company responsible for the revival of Venetian glass, in 1854, Fratelli Toso went on to be one of the major contributors of modern glass design, especially in the 1950s. Designers like Ermanno Toso and Pollio Perelda were rewarded for their accomplishments at Venice Biennali and other international exhibitions. This is the first book devoted to the extraordinary glass produced by Fratelli Toso. With over 400 color photographs of 19th and early 20th century murrine glass, 20th century factory production, and unique art glass; history of the company, chronology, detailed captions, bibliography, index, and value guide this book will be indispensable to the collector, dealer, and researcher.

Fratelli Toso Murano

Fratelli Toso Murano
Author: Marc Heiremans
Publisher: Arnold'sche
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Glass art
ISBN: 9783897905061

- 1,500 hitherto unpublished design drawings- A broad selection of pieces in the celebrated millefiori technique- An essential reference work for all connoisseurs of Murano glassA creative exchange with artists such as the painter Guido Cadorin or the ceramicist and sculptor Hans Stoltenberg-Lerche brought the second generation Toso Brothers to the forefront of Murano glass manufactories at the beginning of the twentieth century. After the Second World War Ermanno Toso and Pollio Perelda were among the most famous designers and continued the production of lavish series in glass, complemented from the 1950s onwards with high-quality one-offs executed mainly in the celebrated millefiori technique. This decoration consists of a multitude of tiny colored discs, known as murrini, which are produced by melting, cooling and cutting bundled canes of glass to form a cross-section pattern. Together with Caterina Toso, renowned Murano expert Marc Heiremans looks back on and reviews the complex history of the famous glass manufactory. Well-informed texts, hitherto unpublished sketches and archive photos make Fratelli Toso Murano an essential reference work for all connoisseurs of glass.

Venetian Glass

Venetian Glass
Author: Sheldon Barr
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1998-03
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

In this first survey of late 19th- and early 20th-century Venetian glass, readers are treated to 100 dazzling color photographs of some of the finest glass ever created. The fanciful shapes, remarkable clarity, sumptuous colors, and unusual patterns of Venetian glass have delighted and amazed collectors and enthusiasts the world over.

20th Century Factory Glass

20th Century Factory Glass
Author: Lesley Jackson
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The only comprehensive reference book regarding internationally produced glassware for the home, "20th Century Factory Glass" is required reading for glass collectors and enthusiasts alike. Featuring every great designer, from Louis Comfort Tiffany to Alvar Aalto, as well as companies from Baccarat to Steuben, this volume provides clues to identifying marks, codes, and labels.

Vetreria Aureliano Toso

Vetreria Aureliano Toso
Author: Marc Heiremans
Publisher: Arnold'sche
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Glass art
ISBN: 9783897904545

History -- Works -- Archive -- Model list -- Techniques -- Index of names and companies.

Antiques Roadshow Collectibles

Antiques Roadshow Collectibles
Author: Carol Prisant
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780761128229

Offers tips on identifying, collecting, and caring for furniture, photographs, posters and illustration art, costume jewelry and wristwatches, dolls, toys, advertising and sports memorabilia, and glass and pottery.

Murano Glass

Murano Glass
Author: Marc Heiremans
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Contains superb colour and black & white illustrations of this internationally renowned glass. Another superb book in the comprehensive series detailing the evolution of Murano glass.

Venice

Venice
Author: Margaret Plant
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300083866

Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.

Pride in Modesty

Pride in Modesty
Author: Michelangelo Sabatino
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-05-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1442667370

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.