Archimede Seguso

As far as glassblowers go, Archimede Seguso has got to be one of my all time favorites. He developed many innovative cane working techniques. While staying in Venice I made it my goal to try to find some original cane worked vessels made by the maestro. I spent the good part of a day scouring all of the antique glass shops I could find on the island, and I finally stumbled upon this piece- a square bottle done in the merletto technique. I guess it might not look like anything special to most people, but for me this is gold. I would have liked to take it home with me, but it understandably had quite a hefty price tag... Luckily, the woman working at the gallery was nice enough to let me take some pictures.









Archimede's old studio on Murano.







A tribute to the maestro. I'm pretty sure it says: "In everlasting remembrance of the maestro Archimede Seguso. In this place he taught his art from 1948 until 1999."