Archimede Seguso electrified Murano glass candle holder

Archimede Seguso electrified Murano glass candle holder

Archimede Seguso master glassmaker, for the genius and innovation in design, is recognized internationally. The 1950s were a period of research for Seguso, and thus began his collaboration with Tiffany & Co. The dialogue between Maestro Seguso and the various creative directors who followed one another at Tiffany & Co. gave rise to iconic collections, the prototypes of which are kept in the Artistic Glassworks archives. Seguso is present in the major glass museums

Archimede also collaborated with other Italian and international artists and designers: in 1952, with Giuseppe Santomaso, Archimede Seguso created a series of brightly colored handles for the doors of the TELVE telephone booths, a prelude to the large panel designed and built for the Cortina d’Ampezzo Ice Stadium on the occasion of the 1956 Winter Olympics; in collaboration with Luigi Rincicotti, he created ‘Il Gioco’, a sculpture exhibited at the 1966 Venice Art Biennial. The sixties continue to give us formidable works in glass, now contended by collectors. We remember the “continuous threads” of 1962, the “Aleanti” of 1964, the “Colours and overlapping bands” of 1966, the “Filigrana stellata” and the “Cipolla” (with threads) of 1968: all these collections were exhibited at the Venice Biennial.

Archimede however doesn’t leave the ancient love for the solid sculpture: he creates works as “Head of sleeping woman”(1971), connected to the high relief of “Sleeping woman sitting on a bench” of 1951, “The bud” and “Double eclipse” (1986), “Head of child”(1972) and “Head of women with hair in the wind”.

In 1982 he took part in the exhibition of the Thousand Years of Glass in Venice at Palazzo Grassi and at the Correr Museum, with several sculptures and with the “Deposed Christ”: the work, kept in the Museum of the Basilica of San Marco in Venice until 2019, is now on display in the private museum of the Archimede Seguso Artistic Glassworks in Murano, Fondamenta Serenella 18.

In 1989, to celebrate his 80th birthday, the Save Venice organization honored him with a personal exhibition in New York entitled “Il Maestro dei Maestri” at Tiffany & Co.

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