Description
The Potocka vase is the new entry of the 2025 collection by Giberto Venezia.
Made in Murano glass and embellished with hot-burned silver leaf to give an incredible mirrored effect, it is unique in its irregular shape and always different due to the nature of the hand-blowing.
Giberto Valenti Gonzaga Arrivabene says that “while visiting a friend in Paris I was struck by a mirrored vase from her collection, from there the idea of exploring the technique to make it, and that’s how Potocka vase was born, a name given in honor of her mother”.
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.
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