A Fasce Vase by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini, 1950s

Browded glass vase with horizontal bands design Fulvio Bianconi for Venini. Murano, 1950s Murano Murano period 50s designer Fulvio Bianconi (1915 - 1996) was an Italian artist, designer and graphic designer. Son of the musician Virginio (also called Emo) and Elvira, a housewife, already as a young man shows an incredible predisposition for the drawing. When on a local newspaper appears to be the announcement that at the Madonna dell'Orto seek a young man with a very strong vocation for the drawing the mother, without any hesitation, exclaims that they are looking for his son Fulvio. In Venice he attended the Carmini art school and works as an apprentice decorator at the shop of Michele Pinto. He marries Bruna and after the birth of the first daughter Maria (Marieto) works in various locations in Northern Italy and Istria, drawing and decorating churches and performing portraits. In 1933 Dino Villani introduced him to graphic work at Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Motta, and other Milanese publishing houses. During the Second World War he lends military service by moving between the south of France, Milan and Rome, in the latter city, miraculously changing the Nazi raid for the attack of via Rasella, clinging to the cornice of the house where he lives. After the war, the gi. You. Emme commits him to draw the new perfume bottles and sends him to Murano, to Paolo Venini. Established in Milan he works as a graph at the major publishing houses and in the early 1950s he will end up working permanently with Garzanti for which, until 1975, he will sign covers and supercoples and take care of the corporate graphics, taking on the artistic direction of the publishing house. At the same time he works on the graphic image for companies such as Fiat, Marzotto, Pirelli, Rai, HMV and other well -known companies. In the same period and in particular starting from 1957, following divergences with Paolo Venini on the attribution of the paternity of the glass works performed by him, interrupts the collaboration and dedicated himself directly and personally to the creation and distribution of glass works collaborating with Almost all the Muranese windows, and beyond. In 1947 the second daughter, Musetta was born. Bruno Munari writes by presenting him: 'When Bianconi has a certain amount of sketches and notes relating to the glass, he leaves and goes to Murano where, in some furnaces, the main windows are waiting for him to work together. Because Bianconi is not a table artist who studies his vessels with the compass and the golden section, he instead loves to go directly to the furnace to work together with the teacher and it is so much the fury with which Bianconi creates his windows that he manages to enter the soul of the master and make him act according to his own will. 'He himself defines his favorite hobby and his great love painting. Source Marca Venini model with horizontal bands Materials Burkite glass dimensions H 30.5 cm Ø 10 cm perfect condition. Evaluate through the attached photos.