Architect, urban planner, glass, furniture and landscape designer, and interior decorator — Tomaso Buzzi was a 20th-century renaissance man. Buzzi, along with his frequent collaborator Gio Ponti, led Italy’s Novecento Milanese movement of the 1920s and ‘30s — an approximate equivalent to France’s Art Deco movement. While Buzzi is prized for chairs, tables and other furnishings that modernized the majestic lines of 18th-century designs, he is best known for the remarkable, jewel-toned glassware he produced in a two-year stint as the artistic director of the Venini glassworks on the Venetian island of Murano.
Buzzi was born in 1900 in the town of Sondrio in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. He studied at the Milan Polytechnic, and soon after he graduated joined a lively Milanese decorative arts scene. In 1927, he and Ponti joined fellow designers Paolo Venini and Michele Marelli to form a design collaborative called Il Labirinto (the Labyrinth), Italy’s answer to the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1932, when Venini's glass company lost the design services of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, who left to start his own factory, he turned to Buzzi. The young architect’s careful study of lighting design and a love for experimentation yielded major innovations in Murano glass fixtures. The forms of his wares were inspired by sources from antiquity as diverse as Persian urns and animal-shaped Etruscan jugs. Buzzi developed a complex glass-layering method that produced deep, glowing pastel colors that ran from pink to peach, to sea-green and slate blue.
Buzzi furniture has a noteworthy elegance and nobility. Delicate chairs with arrow-shaped backs and elaborate burled wood armoires are typical of his aesthetic, and would add a sophisticated note to any room, modern or traditional. And an exemplary piece of Buzzi’s vibrant, lustrous glassware would merit a place of honor in every design collection.
Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1940s. An extremely striking elegantly crafted chandelier comprising of multiple pressed glass in...
Brass
Murano Glass Chandelier by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, Italy, 1930s
By Tomaso Buzzi, Venini
Located in Nicolosi, IT
Elegant Murano glass chandelier attributed to Tomaso Buzzi for Venini, Italy, 1930s. The design is centered around a slender vertical structure enriched with sculptural blown-glass e...
Brass
Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981) and Venini, chandeliers "lattimo" and "pulegoso"
By Tomaso Buzzi, Venini
Located in NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981) and Venini Rare floral hanging light in blown glass using the "lattimo" and "pulegoso" techniques Circa 1935 Composed of a central basin and twelve palm lea...
Blown Glass
$4,872
H 39.38 in Dm 11.82 in
Attributed to Tomaso Buzzi Art Dèco Style Brass Murano Glass Lantern Chandelier
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Art Deco style lantern chandelier with brass structure and roped glass diffuser, attributed to the architect and designer Tomaso Buzzi, ceiling lamp mod. 5265, from 1936. Height of g...
Brass
$3,024Sale Price|45% Off
H 39.38 in Dm 12.6 in
Carlo Scarpa lattimo "a fasce" glass Ceiling Lamp by Venini, Murano 1938
By Venini, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Rome, IT
Carlo Scarpa ceiling lamp 1938 Ceiling lamp designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Venini Murano Clear and Lattimo “ a fasce” gla...
Brass
Murano Glass Spiral Chandelier by Venini
By Venini
Located in Berlin, BE
Very nice high quality Murano glass spiral chandelier by Venini. The chandelier is in excellent condition. 8 x E14 bulbs Height includin...
Chrome
Murano Chandelier by Venini, 1960s
By Venini
Located in Rome, IT
Wonderful fountain of light made by dozens of violet droplets and ice crystals. Measures: Height without chain 45 cm., width 45
Blown Glass
Mid-Century Italian Murano Glass Chandelier by Venini
By Venini
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Italian chandelier by Venini. Each of the prisms is solid glass, measuring 11 inches and 4 inches. They hang from hooks onto a chrome frame, as pictured. Any amoun...
Italian Clear Murano Glass Chandelier by Venini
By Venini
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A glamorous Italian chrome and clear Murano “Tronchi” chandelier design by Venini in the 1970s. Newly rewired. Dimensions are for just the chandelier, not the chain. Let us know the ...
Chrome
VENINI MURANO - art deco chandelier - 1930s
By Venini
Located in Milano, IT
VENINI - Murano - Elegant chandelier in pulegoso glass, from Murano, original 1930s , Art Dèco period. Pulegoso glass is a technique developed in the 1920s by Napoleone Martinuzzi at...
Steel
Large Midcentury Murano Chandelier by Toni Zuccheri for Venini
By Paolo Venini, Toni Zuccheri, Salviati, Venini, Seguso
Located in Houston, TX
Large midcentury Murano chandelier by Toni Zuccheri for Venini. Stunning large midcentury clear Murano glass chandelier by Toni ...
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Midcentury Venini Style Murano Chandelier
By Toni Zuccheri, Barovier&Toso, Venini, Paolo Venini, Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in Houston, TX
Midcentury Venin style Murano chandelier. Unusual Italian midcentury Murano glass chandelier inspired by Venin. This vintage Murano glass chandelier is comprised of unusual oval shaped textured blown glass tubes suspended from a chrome frame. This Hollywood Regency Murano chandelier...
Chrome
Triedri Murano Glass Chandelier by Venini
By Venini
Located in Dallas, TX
Large Mid-Century Modern octogonal "Triedri" Venini chandelier or flush-mount, in clear Murano glass with a chrome frame. Italy, circa 1980s. The vintage chandelier is made of four l...
Chrome
Pair Venini Feather Sconces by Tomaso Buzzi 1930
By Napoleone Martinuzzi, Venini
Located in Hanover, MA
Graceful original pair of glass "feather" sconces from Venini Murano and designed by Tomaso Buzzi circa 1930. Gold air twist down the centre stem. Bronze mounts. Rewired. Ready to mo...
Bronze
Murano glass chandelier Tronchi by Toni Zuccheri for Venini Italy 1960s
By Venini, Toni Zuccheri
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Illuminate your space with the enduring elegance of this Murano glass chandelier, a creation from the 1960s designed by Toni Zuccheri for Venini & Co., a prominent player in the ...
Murano Glass
Tomaso Buzzi lattimo glass chandelier for Venini, Italy, 1930s
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Chiavari, Liguria
A rare Murano glass chandelier, designed by Tomaso Buzzi and produced by Venini in the 1930s, crafted in lattimo glass with golden inclusions for a pharmacy of the period. The Venet...
Blown Glass
Model 5318 Ceiling Light by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model 5318 ceiling light by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1940. Three-shade ceiling light with white enameled frame and wrapped brass candy cane detailing. The shades contain an exterior glass shell and a textured interior...
Brass
Tomaso Buzzi, Mid-Century Pink "Bullicante" Glass Chandelier by Venini
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Catania, CT
Great condition with no chips or cracks for this chandelier made from rare pink "bullicante" glass and designed by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Italy 1930s. Full working with EU standard...
Murano Glass
Murano Glass Chandelier Attributed to Tomaso Buzzi for Venini
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Murano glass chandelier designed by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Original label numbered. Elegant structure composed by three different part, the...
Glass, Murano Glass
Tommaso Buzzi for Venini Monumenal Three Arms Chandelier in a Glass Sphere, 30s
By Venini, Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Historical Venini piece created under former director Tommaso Buzzi. Small glass chandelier with 3 leaves and brass hardware encased in a glass...
Brass
Tommaso Buzzi for Venini, Three Arms Chandelier Inside a Glass Sphere, 1930s
By Tomaso Buzzi, Venini
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Historical Venini piece created under former director Tommaso Buzzi. Small glass chandelier with 3 leaves and brass hardware encased in a glass ...
Brass
Single Rare Pendant by Tomaso Buzzi
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Single rare pendant by Tomaso Buzzi. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1950s. Enameled metal, brass. Rewired for U.S. standards. Original canopy. ...
Brass, Metal
Pair of Chandelier by Tommaso Buzzi, Produzione Donzelli
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in London, GB
Pair of chandelier by Tommaso Buzzi - Produzione Donzelli, 1950s.
Brass
Venini Chandelier Italian design by Tomaso Buzzi, Murano, Italy 1930s
By Tomaso Buzzi
Located in Rome, IT
This elegant fixture composed by 12 stylized glass leaves and centered by a precious 'lattimo' glass. Brass structure with six E 24 light bulbs. Similar model pictured in Franco D...