Inspired by quiet sunlit mornings, salt-kissed textures, and luminous Mediterranean interiors, Burro — VENINI’s new collection — introduces a soft, enveloping hue that reveals glass in its purest and most natural expression.
Burro evokes the essence of the Italian summer: the pale tones of seaside architecture, sun-weathered textures, and the interplay of light and shadow during the day’s quietest hours. A delicate shade, yet one capable of warming interiors and enhancing forms through soft reflections and velvety nuances. In this new chromatic interpretation, glass becomes a silent presence. Light glidesa across its surface, accentuating volumes and conveying a sense of balance and lightness. The vases interact naturally with their surroundings, evoking a relaxed and contemporary elegance.
Within this vision, VENINI’s Art Glass icons are reinterpreted in the new shade: Deco by Napoleone Martinuzzi (1930), Fazzoletto by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini (1948), Opalino (1932), Monofiore Balloton (1970), Balloton Fiori (2024), Clessidra by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini (1957), Clessidra Sommersa (2024), Ritagli by Fulvio Bianconi (1989), and Battuto a Nido d’Ape by Carlo Scarpa (1940).
With Burro, VENINI continues its chromatic research through tones that reflect the sensibility of contemporary living. The collection is available in VENINI stores and through a curated selection of exclusive retailers worldwide.
Founded in 1921 by Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini and Venetian antique dealer Giacomo Cappellin, Venini S.p.A.—originally Cappellin, Venini & C.—quickly became a reference point in the world of artistic glass, establishing the stylistic identity that continues to define the maison today. Over the years, Venini has forged significant collaborations with designers and architects
such as Carlo Scarpa, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Fulvio Bianconi, and, in the post-war period, Gio Ponti, Lella and Massimo Vignelli, Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Gae Aulenti, and Tapio Wirkkala, extending to prominent contemporary names including Monica Guggisberg, Fabio Novembre, Emmanuel Babled, Ron Arad, Rodolfo Dordoni, Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, Tadao Ando, Peter Marino and to artists such as Mimmo Rotella, Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Giulio Paolini and Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Through these collaborations, the original artistic production has continually evolved in both form and language. Venini presents its works in two distinct collections: Art Glass, featuring extraordinary sculptural vases and decorative objects, and Art Lights, showcasing chandeliers and large-scale installations designed for both public and private spaces.
Some of the Vanini’s unique masterpieces are:
BALLOTTON: For this technique, the master glassmaker uses a special metal mould which has small pyramid-shaped tips with a square base all along the interior surface of its circumference. During the blowing process, the glass entirely fills the empty spaces in the mould and creates a particular optical effect of crossed relief.
BATTUTO (BEATEN): This is the cold-crafting technique that most challenges the skill and delicacy of the master glassmaker. The distinctive characteristic of Beaten glass is that its surface is “sculpted” by hand with a grinding wheel. This creates countless small and apparently irregular marks on the glass surface.
CANNE (CANES): They can be either in one colour or made with glass pastes in different colours, transparent or matt, with infinite variations. The common denominator is the shape: the glass element is pulled into a long cane and has a circular section. The canes are usually lined up next to each other to be molten and blown. The result is an even more precious object due to the final effect and the difficulty of the execution.
DECORI (DECORATIONS): These are any applications that the master glassmaker applies on the object’s surface while it is still hot. They make every object unique and precious. The Decoration is chosen while the work is being designed and can range from a personalization of the edge of the glass to the insertion of precious gold leaves in its transparency.
FASCE (BANDS): The master glassmaker pours a molten pattern of coloured glass threads, which are technically called Bands, onto a generally transparent body of glass placed in the centre. After blending them into each other, he covers everything with an extremely thin layer of crystal thus obtaining an irregular and highly impactful chromatic pattern.
INCALMO: This is one of the most complex crafting techniques: the Incalmo consists in heating the glass to combine two hand-blown shapes along their circumference in order to obtain one object in which different areas, usually in different colours, suggestively meet.
INCISO (ETCHED): This complex artistic technique is performed with a hard stone grinding wheel, which is used to engrave the cold surface of the almost finished product. The master glassmaker carefully and meticulously follows the pattern designed by the artist. For a moment, the master glassmaker holds his breath – that is how concentrated he is. If he makes the slightest mistake, all his efforts will be in vain.
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