Ceiling lamp "Ninfea".

Ceiling lamp "Ninfea".
Designed by Toni Zuccheri for VENINI, Italy, 1965.
Murano glass.
Measurements: 30 x 65 cm.

Toni Zuccheri trained at the school of his father Luigi, an animalistic painter, and then attended the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, where he graduated in 1968. At the end of 1961, while still a student, he replaced his father in the Venini firm. Thus began in an almost fortuitous way a collaboration destined to continue over time, albeit discontinuously. In the book "Toni Zuccheri in Venini (Design and applied arts)", it is stated "Artist of great curiosity and inventiveness, is passionately dedicated to research and experimentation, acquiring over time a considerable knowledge of both hot and cold working techniques, establishing profitable relationships with the various departments of the glass factory (furnace and mill). Thus were born glass series, such as those exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1964, where an initial reflection on transparency and color (Crepuscoli and Giade) became evident. Alongside them, polychrome glass ducks and unpublished glass and bronze farm animals (turkeys and others) published in the pages of the "Domus" are exhibited, along with the famous hoopoe, with its innumerable sculptural feathers. This same period is also marked by the collaboration between Gio Ponti and glassmaking, to which the Milanese architect had resorted for the creation of stained glass windows with very thick sheets".