The Lombard architect Tomaso Buzzi was a leading exponent of the so-called Novecento\u00a0Milanese. A friend and collaborator of Gio Ponti, he was also a member of the group called\u00a0Il Labirinto, together with architects and entrepreneurs like Ponti,\u00a0Michele Marelli and Paolo Venini. And it was with Ponti that Tomaso
\nBuzzi became one of the most important creators of Italian taste\u00a0in the 1930s, setting the benchmark for the next few years. An erudite\u00a0architect, experimental industrial designer and refined interior\u00a0designer, as well as being a collaborator with the magazine Domus,\u00a0his services were sought by some of the most important upper-class\u00a0Italian families: the Volpi, Cini, and Visconti, to mention but a few.
\nThe buildings he worked on include the Villa Necchi Campiglio,\u00a0Milan, recently restored by the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI), Palladio\u2019s\u00a0Villa Maser, Treviso, the Palazzo Cini at San Vio, the Palazzo\u00a0Papadopoli and the Palazzo Labia (all Venice). From 1932 to 1933 Buzzi began to collaborate\u00a0very actively with the Venini glassworks and was to continue to do so, albeit more sporadically,\u00a0over the following few years. Buzzi\u2019s creative contribution consisted in an experimental\u00a0approach to form and materials. His extensive studies on lightning initiated the development\u00a0of new forms in this traditional sector of Murano glassmaking. Curated by Marino Barovier,\u00a0Tomaso Buzzi at Venini reconstructs this brief but fecund collaboration, documented not\u00a0only through a selection of glass objects and original drawings from the Venini Archive but
\nalso unpublished designs held at Scarzuola (Montegabbione), the \u201ctheatre-city\u201d, which Buzzi\u00a0began to construct in the late 1970s. To accompany the exhibition, the first catalogue raison\u00e9e\u00a0of Tomaso Buzzi\u2019s glass works, edited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35298,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1487],"cini_tax_institutes":[1421],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1488],"class_list":["post-35378","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-exhibitions","cini_tax_institutes-le-stanze-del-vetro-en","cini_tax_event_locations-le-stanze-del-vetro-venice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n