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VETRERIA AURELIANO TOSO, MURANO 1938-1968

-Designs by Dino Martens, Enrico Potz and Gino Poli

Marc Heiremans

Intense colours and a vast diversity of forms and decoration: glass art from Murano occupies a very special status in the world. With the current book, the company archive of the glass manufactory Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso, founded in 1938, is being brought to a wider audience for the very first time. Together with the company history and a well-researched list of models, the author Marc Heiremans has succeeded in showing the complete spectrum of the artistic production of one of the most significant Muranese manufactories.

The book is divided into five chapters. A richly illustrated catalogue section is followed in the second chapter by the company history, with a wealth of information on its founding and closure as well as on the life of the Toso family and the most important designers. The 142 objects in large-format illustrations present highlights from important international collections.

The core of the publication is the company archive, comprising 1,575 design drawings. Chronologically arranged, it shows the impressive production of the Muranese glass manufactory over thirty years. The archive is followed by the list of model numbers of over 5,000 entries. For the first time ever, it enables the clear identification and dating of the breathtaking designs by Dino Martens, Enrico Potz, Gino Poli and other colleagues in the firm. Finally, in the last chapter, explanations of the glass art techniques are provided accompanied by informative photographs.

Some 1,600 mostly unpublished design drawings from the company archive, together with the comprehensive list of model numbers, provide a complete overview of the glass manufactory’s work. Large-format colour photographs of glassworks from international collections illustrate the wide diversity in production. An indispensable reference work that enables the attribution of many hitherto unknown objects!

See also:
Marc Heiremans
SEGUSO VETRI D’ARTE
Glass Objects from Murano (1932−1973)
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Posted 8 July 2016

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If you don’t want to fall in love with glass, better not read this book!
As always Marc Heiremans did a great job in collecting the best material as glass works on photos where the glass seams to be stored with light. With chapters as Foreword, History, Works, Archive, Model list and Techniques, the Index of Names and Companies closes this monumental book. Well-designed and printed the book is like a book should be: generous, well-organized and a feast for the eye and mind. As the Foreword by Lutz H. Holz opens explaining that the book you hold in your hands is a result of a great deal of enthusiasm, meticulous research and a generous dose of good luck, I would like to add a vast body of knowledge and mastery of the history of this special archive, factory and its designers, the techniques and the collections. Together with the designs this book is a treasury of information all should read and study and for the collector a standard work to give his collecting a serious foundation.
Angela van der Burght

Pages from the book VETRERIA AURELIANO TOSO, MURANO 1938–1968 

Pages from the book VETRERIA AURELIANO TOSO, MURANO 1938–1968 

Pages from the book VETRERIA AURELIANO TOSO, MURANO 1938–1968 

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