Pair Venini 1970s Patchwork Glass Sconces

One pair of elegantly designed and documented glass sconces by famous Italian designer Tony Zuccheri for Venini circa 1970. Origianly two pair available. Only one pair now for sale. Each patchwork style sconces consists of four 6" glass squares in clear, amber or pale gold glass on the back. On top of the four back plates is either one large central square or four smaller 3" square plates. Each sconce is different with wonderful variations in the hand formed glass squares. Behind each sconce and housing the lights is a pale gold glass square ring or frame only seen from the side view. All glass hand made. White enamel metal frame with one interior socket per sconce. Toni Zuccheri 1937–2008 Born in 1936 in San Vito al Taglimento, Toni Zuccheri was the son of renowned Italian metaphysical painter Luigi Zuccheri whose work was focused predominantly on the depiction of fantastic animals and birds. From an early age Toni demonstrated an innate capacity for drawing and possessed a great sensitivity toward nature and animals, birds in particular. A few years after moving to Venice with his family in 1945, he enrolled in the Academy of Architecture and studied under Franco Albini, Ignazio Gardella, Carlo Scarpa and others. In the early 1960s he began to study and work at Venini where, in collaboration with Gio Ponti, he engaged in intensive experimentation with glass; the culmination was the development of Vetro Grosso, a new type of glass created from dense vitreous pastes combined with murrine, raw pigment, shards of Filigrana canes and fine wire mesh.