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Tomaso Buzzi Chandeliers and Pendants

Italian, 1900-1981

Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator — Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th-century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and ‘30s — an approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano.

     Buzzi was born in 1900 in the town of Sondrio in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, and soon after he graduated joined a lively Milanese decorative arts scene. In 1927, he and Ponti joined fellow designers Paolo Venini and Michele Marelli to form a design collaborative called Il Labirinto (the Labyrinth), Italy’s answer to the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1932, when Venini's glass company lost the design services of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, who left to start his own factory, he turned to Buzzi. The young architect’s careful study of lighting design and a love for experimentation yielded major innovations in Murano glass fixtures. The forms of his wares were inspired by sources from antiquity as diverse as Persian urns and animal-shaped Etruscan jugs. Buzzi developed a complex glass-layering method that produced deep, glowing pastel colors that ran from pink to peach, to sea-green and slate blue.

     Buzzi furniture has a noteworthy elegance and nobility. Delicate chairs with arrow-shaped backs and elaborate burled wood armoires are typical of his aesthetic, and would add a sophisticated note to any room, modern or traditional. And an exemplary piece of Buzzi’s vibrant, lustrous glassware would merit a place of honor in every design collection.

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Creator: Tomaso Buzzi
Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
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Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1940s. An extremely striking elegantly crafted chandelier comprising of multiple pressed glass in...
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Tomaso Buzzi, Mid-Century Pink "Bullicante" Glass Chandelier by Venini
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Great condition with no chips or cracks for this chandelier made from rare pink "bullicante" glass and designed by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Italy 1930s. Full working with EU standard...
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Tomaso Buzzi chandeliers and pendants for sale on 1stDibs.

Tomaso Buzzi chandeliers and pendants are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of murano glass and are designed with extraordinary care. Many of the original chandeliers and pendants by Tomaso Buzzi were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the mid-20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider chandeliers and pendants by Guglielmo Ulrich, Vetreria Artistica Barovier & C., and Salviati. Prices for Tomaso Buzzi chandeliers and pendants can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $10,808 and can go as high as $28,200, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $17,100.

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