This lot is offered ꦗtogether with a ce🃏rtificate of authenticity from Venini, Murano.

Windows, or rather stained-glass panels by Paolo Venini are exceedingly rare. The production at the time was expensive🤡 and time consuming, as all panels were blown by hand, an undertaking which required time and great skill by the glass blowers.

The idea of stained glass came to Paolo Venini during a trip to the Greek island of Delos while observing the structure of ancient walls and the pattern of bark of palm trees. These windows of abstract design, combined mosaic glass panes, sometimes with single-colored glass elements or tessuto glass canes. The windows were created for either domestic or commercial spaces, sometimes with the involvement of important contemporary architects, like Oscar Storonov, B.B.P.R. and Franco Albini. In 1957 an important exhibition of Paolo Venini’s windows took place during the 11^th Milan Triennale, where they received critical acclaim.

The present window is composed of stained glass with undulating bands and panes in mosaic glass with a tessuto of fine red, pagliesco (straw colored), ametista (amethyst) and lattimo canes. It is similar in design to the window produced for the headquarters of the Burgo paper mill in Turin in 1957 and now in the private collection of Francesco Carraro in Venice. Another example, in mosaic glass panes and tessuto, with a coloration of zaffiro (sapphire), pagliesco (straw-coloured) and light-blue and lattimo canes can be found in the collection of The Corning Glas𓄧s Museum, Corning New York.