The LE STANZE DEL VETRO catalogues are a precious tool to find out in depth about the marvellous world of glass production today and in the 20th century.

If you want to discover more about the influence Venetian glass had around the world, we suggest the Venice and American Studio Glass catalogue, a detailed study dedicated to American glass production from the 1960s to today, with particular attention to the role of the Venetian influence. The volume explores how Venetian and American artists breathed a fresh artistic aesthetic into a historic tradition of craftsmanship, creating wonderful works of art.

The Glass Ark. Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg collection, published in 2021 on the occasion of the exhibition of that name at LE STANZE DEL VETRO, looks instead at the Venetian production of glass animals through the unique collection of Pierre Rosenberg, President – Honorary Director of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The catalogue contains an interview with this eclectic collector along with further in-depth analysis by the exhibition curators, Cristina Beltrami and Giordana Naccari, as well as by Jean-Luc Olivié, conservator of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and glass historian Rosa Barovier Mentasti.

The catalogues Tapio Wirkkala at Venini and Toni Zuccheri at Venini (only available in English) describe two fundamental chapters in the history of the Venini glassworks. Although these artists worked during different periods, they reveal themselves to be key to an in-depth understanding of Venini’s production and history.

If you are interested in Italian design, we recommend the FontanaArte. House of Glass catalogue, which gathers together in one book the production of glass furnishing accessories designed by FontanaArte in the 20th century, the golden century of Italian design; and also Venini Light 1921 – 1985, a book that brings together in over 500 entries the most significant creations of the Venini glassworks in the field of lighting, accompanied by a large number of photographs.

If, on the other hand, you want to explore the rich and fascinating story of European glass production in the 20th century, Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters is the book for you. It describes in a highly innovative way the evolution of Bohemian glass, which became the favoured medium for artistic sculpture.