{"id":32252,"date":"2023-10-09T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetreriamuranodesign.com\/uncategorized\/bicchieri-di-murano-colorati-da-collezione-gaudi\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:23:46","slug":"bicchieri-di-murano-colorati-da-collezione-gaudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetreriamuranodesign.com\/en\/bicchieri-vetro-murano-en\/bicchieri-di-murano-colorati-da-collezione-gaudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Our colourful and ‘modernist’ glass: Gaud\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today we want to talk to you about a collection<\/strong> of coloured Murano glasses<\/a> that is very important to us<\/strong>, the collection we have made to pay homage to a great artist we love so much: Gaud\u00ed.<\/p>\n

The glass in this collection in fact, the Gaud\u00ed glass<\/strong><\/a>, was the first ever glass from the Vetreria artistica Murano Design<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is a bizarre glass, there is no doubt about it, which is somewhat striking for its unconventional exuberance<\/strong> and, for this reason, does not go unnoticed (a bit like the works of Gaud\u00ed himself).<\/p>\n

But let’s start at the beginning, because good stories must be told well.<\/p>\n

(read the whole article if you want to discover the history of Gaud\u00ed’s collectible Murano glassware<\/strong>)[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The Gaud\u00ec Glass<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”bottom”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]It was 2007<\/a><\/strong>, we had finished our apprenticeship in Murano and after years of hard work we finally felt ready to take over the reins of our artistic production<\/strong>, so we opened Vetreria Murano Design<\/a><\/strong>.
\nNow that we were fully-fledged master glassmakers, we could finally decide every single aspect of the work, from the technical realisation to the choice of craftsmanship on which we would specialise.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text]We couldn’t wait to try our hand at what would be the first product completely our own<\/strong>.
\nWe had no doubt that it had to be a glass<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”32221″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Why a glass<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”32219″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]The first thing an apprentice glassmaker does is the glass<\/strong>. When you enter a glassworks and find yourself very close to the furnaces, you immediately realise that you will always be very hot in that place and will have to drink a lot of water<\/strong>.
\nSo you combine the useful with the amusing (if you want to call the need to drink that…) and the master glassmaker immediately makes you try out the tools of the trade by letting you try your hand at making an object that will be indispensable for your survival: the gotto<\/strong> (‘glass’ in Venetian).
\nObviously, as it is your first job, it always comes out a bit ‘lopsided’<\/strong>, very curved, almost dented.
\nOnly with time do you learn to produce colourful and harmonious Murano glasses.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]But why not inaugurate our new independence by starting again from our beginning and thus always making a glass, but this time making it curved in a non-accidental but deliberate way?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We decided to go further and make the curved line the motif of the whole glass.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But who was it who had made curves his strong point?<\/strong> Gaud\u00ec.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”32226″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Who was Gaud\u00ec<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Gaud\u00ed<\/strong><\/a> was a Spanish architect at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the greatest exponent of ‘Catalan modernism<\/strong><\/a>‘, i.e. the version that developed in Catalonia of the artistic current called Art Nouveau<\/strong><\/a> in France and Liberty<\/strong><\/a> in Italy.<\/p>\n

Even if you are not an expert in art and architecture, you have certainly already seen Gaudi’s buildings, if only in photos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

His are in fact the strangest buildings you can see in Barcelona<\/strong> and the famous Sagrada Fam\u00edlia<\/strong><\/a>, a cathedral famous in the collective imagination for its extravagant beauty and for the fact that it is said that it will never be finished (recent predictions say that we will see it completed in 2026, 144 years after the laying of the first stone and 100 years after Gaud\u00ed’s death).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”32205″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Why we love Gaudi<\/h2>\n

Gaud\u00ed took up the teachings of another great architect, Viollet-le-Duc<\/strong><\/a>, who urged young artists not to turn dogmatically to the great examples of the past<\/strong>, but to improve on them<\/strong> with the help of their own sensitivity<\/strong> and new building and technological techniques.<\/p>\n

And so it was that Gaud\u00ed decided that tradition should be the starting point, not the point of arrival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When we opened the Murano Design glassworks, we felt like the young Gaud\u00ed: we loved the past and the historical techniques of Murano glassmaking, but we were also ready to put ourselves on the line, ready to break with the patterns<\/strong> we had been taught during our apprenticeship, but always keeping them as a point of reference.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”32213″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Gaud\u00ec’s curved line<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”32237″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]”The straight line is the line of men, the curved line the line of God<\/em><\/strong>” Gaud\u00ed was fond of saying, and his buildings that twist<\/strong> and contract<\/strong> without following the architectural logic used up to that point are proof that he meant these words from the heart<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]And so it is that even our first glass as master glassmakers<\/strong> of Murano Design does not follow the lines of tradition<\/strong> but bends in on itself, like our first glasses as apprentices but, this time, not by mistake but to follow a precise logic, that of wanting to break the rules, have fun and amaze.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And after having given it that bizarre crooked but more ‘natural<\/strong>‘ shape, as Gaud\u00ec would perhaps say, we filled it even more with curves: thanks to melted coloured glass straws we added lines that were no longer schematic but ready to become more and more twisted<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”32215″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”29157″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Gaud\u00ec’s bright colours<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”32211″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]What else distinguishes Gaud\u00ed’s works?<\/p>\n

Obviously the colours.
\nCould we not pay homage to him by creating beautiful coloured Murano glasses?<\/p>\n

Abandoning the silver leaf of the Murano tradition<\/strong><\/a>, we throw ourselves into composing a glass with the brightest colours we can create<\/strong>, as Gaud\u00ed did with the mosaics that adorned his works.<\/p>\n

The colours of our glasses are vivid<\/strong>, with strong<\/strong> contrasts, ready to stand out wherever they are.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Of course we didn’t stop at glasses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When you like something you want to do it again and again.<\/p>\n

And so, in addition to glasses, we started making jugs<\/strong><\/a>, vases<\/strong> <\/a>and goblets<\/strong><\/a>.
\nAll driven by the same goal: to innovate while having fun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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And we want to leave you with a little lesson, on where to look for inspiration, that Gaud\u00ed left us.<\/p>\n

“Nature has always been my teacher, the tree next to my studio is my teacher<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Antoni Gaud\u00ed (1852-1926)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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