Glass Architecture. The Corolle d'Autore Collection. Architetture di Vetro. La collezione Corolle d'Autore Rex. - Maria Cristina Tommasini.

Bound, cloth with pictorial frontcover, 180pp., 21.5x31.5cm., illustr. in col. As new. English-Italian edition. Rare!!
Editoriale Domus, Milano, 2003
Murano glass in a collection of artist goblets. A splendid catalogue, edited by Domus, illustrating "Corolle d'Autore", the collection commissioned by Rex and produced by Cleto Munari. 70 goblets bearing the signature of over 60 designers from around the world in their approach to Murano's ancient glass-working art: from the sensual decorativism of Alessandro Mendini to the organic designs of Ross Lovegrove, from the composed elegance of Philip Johnson to the algid purity of Kisho Kurokawa, to the playfulness of Alvaro Siza, which breaks the rules of the drinking glass to invent a new genre. Introducing the catalogue is an essay by the renowned glassworker Marino Barovier, in which he recounts, amongst other things, the history and evolution of Murano's glass-working art.