Description
Like his set of drinking glasses, Giberto sees his Gerbera Vase as a natural follow-on from the traditional Venetian “goto” tumbler.
“I like playing with colors; I created the Estelita glass in 2018 for an interior designer friend. I then decided to keep it in the collection because I love the differences in nuance from the glass’ lilac to the rim’s orange”.
The Estelita in fact has the simple Murano shape, hand blown in an intense amethyst, which stands out especially in contrast with the bright orange rim.
Following on from his set of Estelita glasses, Giberto has continued the theme with a vase, whose larger size highlights the shifting colours to even greater effect.
Simple, ineffably elegant, yet quietly assertive, the slightly flared Mare Vase is fashioned exclusively by Murano craftsmen. Its myriad shades and reflections are best offset when placed on a large table filled with beautiful lavander flowers.
The Designer
The life of Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga is viscerally linked to Venice. His childhood memories, the most beautiful, are those that have taken place in the rooms of Palazzo Papadopoli, between frescoes of Tiepolo and family affection. “In my earliest memories Venice had other colours. It was more obscure, dramatic, decayed and deeply romantic – simply beautiful. There wasn’t the same light like there is today – more dazzling perhaps, but less poetic.”
Craftmanship
Each piece derives from a watercolour sketch made by Giberto on tracing paper: “When I see something that inspires me, or an object that I like, I sketch and rework it – then move on to the realization of it.”
The glass, the main material in the collections, is worked exclusively in Murano. Each glass, each specific object, is blown by master glassmakers in the Venetian furnaces.
Giberto takes his watercolours to discuss with them and refine the project, check its feasibility, and to make eventual changes.
