Friday, June 27, 2025
VENINI introduces Stele, a line of unused lamps created by Arnaldo Pomodoro specifically for the brand in 2002. Their production was delayed due to their sophisticated nature, but they have finally been mastered. After the original sketches were recovered, the project began to take shape, combining the artist’s unique style with the craftsmanship of VENINI’s artisans. After twenty-three years, the project, which was inspired by the Italian sculptor’s initial sketches for VENINI, was completed in partnership with Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro.
The first of the three luminous Steles, Stele I, debuted at Milan Design Week 2025 in two sizes: floor (180 cm) and table (60 cm). Each version was produced in a limited edition of 100 pieces. While the center light source, housed in sandblasted glass, uses an inventive LED system to diffuse an encompassing, upward-directed glow, the bronze base and terminal evoke the artist’s hallmark material.
The votive columns of ancient civilisations served as inspiration for the lamps, which now stand as modern totems and represent harmony and beauty. The story of memory, creativity, and form exploration is revealed through a conversation between the solidity and the lightness. Pomodoro had imagined his intricate sculptures, which are a feature of his famous bronze pieces, written on a glowing glass surface in an enthralling reworking of his creative language.
The Stele collection is a work of great complexity, created with the extraordinary talent of its finest master glassmakers and a new glassmaking technology that encouraged the glassworks to show its technical mastery to the maximum. Only VENINI, who has been able to bring an old tradition to life while always seeking out new methods and challenges, has brought life to a collection that is as delicate as it is daring.
About VENINI
In 1921, lawyer-turned-businessman Paolo Venini and antiquarian Giacomo Cappellin established the renowned Murano glassmaker Venini in the Murano neighborhood of Venice. Its early pieces, like as Vittorio Zecchin’s famous Veronese vase, were praised at the Venice Biennale and other international exhibitions right away for their avant-garde design and skillful blown glass craftsmanship. While embracing modern forms, master glassblowers use centuries-old Murano methods, including filigree, murrine, incalmo, battuto, and gold-leaf inclusion. Shades like Rosa Cipria, Rosso Sangue di Bue, and Acquamare, which have exclusive formulae, give each piece a distinctive visual character. Renowned designers like Carlo Scarpa, Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Ron Arad, Tadao Ando, and Fulvio Bianconi, who pioneered Fauvism, have collaborated with Venini.
The book Napoleone Martinuzzi: Venini 1925–1931 highlights the work of Napoleone Martinuzzi, one of the creative directors who continued to work with Venini after Paolo Venini died in 1959.
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