Giberto Venezia

Egeo Frame

Name: Egeo Frame
Brand: Giberto Venezia
SKU: Q0001-003-003
Price: 2040.0 USD
Availability: InStock

The Egeo began with Summertime, and the scene where Katharine Hepburn tumbles into a Venetian canal. Giberto wanted the blue of the city as he knew it as a boy, jumping off bridges and playing football in the campo, and found it in a velvet at Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua. The velvet is set on a mahogany base and edged in hand-blown Murano glass canes. Stands horizontally or vertically. Each piece is handmade, so small variations are normal.

Giberto Venezia is the Venetian house of Giberto Arrivabene, whose family home is Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal. Working with Murano's glassblowers and the city's artisans, the house makes glass, stone and objects for the table drawn from Venice's decorative past. Through December 31, Giberto Venezia is in residence at No. 162 Wentworth.

Material: Bevilacqua velvet, hand-blown Murano glass canes, mahogany
Made in Italy

Dimensions

46 x 36 cm (18.11 x 14.17 in). Fits a photo of 34 x 25 cm (13.39 x 9.84 in). Sizes can vary by up to 1 cm

About Giberto Venezia

Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga grew up in Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, under ceilings painted by Tiepolo. Around twenty years ago he started designing glasses for friends and family, and when the requests kept coming, he and his wife, Bianca, founded Giberto Venezia in 2005. The family still lives on the palazzo’s upper floors, above the Aman Venice hotel that now occupies the rest of it and houses the brand’s flagship.

Every piece starts as a watercolor on tracing paper, usually prompted by a moment: tea in a Marrakech souk, a friend’s yacht, the lagoon turning from grey to green one spring afternoon. Giberto isn’t a glassblower himself. He takes the sketches to the furnaces of Murano and works them out with masters like Gianni Seguso, using techniques such as rigà menà, incalmo and avventurina. Velvet comes from the wooden looms at Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, and rock crystal from Madagascar. Many pieces are engraved by hand on the island. His daughter Mafalda now leads collaborations, and the house has a boutique on the Rialto Bridge.

Egeo Frame

$2,040.00