Venini Vittorio Zecchin5 Wine Glasses in Murano Glass made by Venini in 1923-25. The designer is the notorious Vittorio Zecchin. The colour is rare, very specific from the Art Deco period (straw-colored glass ie vetro pagliesco). Very Rare and Collectible. Signed - H : 25 cmBorn in Murano in 1878, Vittorio Zecchin died in Venice in 1947. he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Painter close to "Art Nouveau", he applied his techniques to glassmaking. He worked for Artisti Barovier in 1913, for Cappellin Venini & Co. from 1921 to 1925, for MVM Cappelin & Co. in 1925 and 1926, for S.A.I.A.R. Ferrro Toso in 1930, for A.V.E.M . in 1932, for Barovier Seguso Ferro in 1933, for F.lli Toso in 1938 and after that for S.A.L.I.R .1921-1929In 1921 he was called to take on the artistic direction of the new glassworks founded that year by Cappellin and Venini, for whom he designed glass that, having abandoned every superfluous decoration of late nineteenth-century heritage, stood out for its extreme novelty and refinement. Vetri di Zecchin are exhibited, among other things, at the Biennials of Decorative Art at Monza in 1923 and 1925, the year in which they also take part in the Paris Expo where they are highly successful. After the dissolution of the Cappellin Venini, Zecchin follows Giacomo Cappellin to the M.V.M. Cappellin & C where he worked as artistic director until the end of 1926 continuing his research on the stylization of the shape of the very light blown.