Bolle vessels, how beautiful

Venini is the best known manufacturer of art glass in Italy and has been hand producing these stunning Bolle vesels, created by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala, for 44 years.  The exacting process of Incalmo that creates the fusion of two pieces are carried out in the Venini studio in Murano by master artisans and their apprentices. It takes two people to create each half of the vessel and carefully join the two halves. The Incalmo process has existed since the Renaissance and in the 1960s Wirkkala discovered a refinement to the technique, making the pieces more delicate and therefore more structurally beautiful. The color scheme for each bottle remains the same: straw yellow with red, gray with blue-green, apple green with amber yellow and violet, straw yellow with apple green, and gray with amethyst. Italy has an incredible art glass industry and these vessels sit at the refined end like little pieces of elegant candy. They are very difficult to find on ebay but are all available at moss. Type Bolle into the search box.