Venini Glass, Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2 Vols, 2007, Near Fine hardcover w/DJs + slipcase

Deboni, Franco, and Pierre Rosenberg. Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 2007. 

English, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 13 1/2" x 9 3/4", [8] 259 pp; Unpaginated; 536 total pp. 

ISBN: 97842215240

Near Fine folio in light blue paper hardcovers with stamped black lettering to spine. Near Fine blue pictorial dust jackets. Near Fine green cloth slipcase with blue pictorial paper affixed to front and back panels, with a green cloth pull-ribbon. [8] 259 pp. Volume One, Its History, artists and techniques includes a Preface by Pierre Rosenberg, a French art historian, curator, and honorary president and director of the Musée de Louvre, an essay by Roberto Gasparotto on the Venini legacy today, a history of Venini, a review of attributed artists, and the various techniques applied during production. Volume Two, Catalogue 1921-2007, includes 385 full-color plates. Celebrates the work and legacy of Paolo Venini, an Italian artisan known for being the leading figure in Venetian glass production with his company Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini & C. on the Italian island of Murano. Published by the Turin-based publishing house, Umberto Allemandi & Co. From the back of the dust jacket: "Eighteen years after the first Venini catalogue (Allemandi, 1989), Franco Deboni now presents a new, long-awaited, updated and enlarged edition, with a new section on lighting fixtures, a dictionary of the artists as well as the precious red, green and blue trade catalogues."