Multicolored submerged Murano glass bottle, whose creation is attributed to Flavio Poli in the 1960s

Ø cm 13 h cm 22,5 

Flavio Poli was born in 1900 in Chioggia and is known for being a great ceramist, designer and Italian painter. Poli is known as the “glass artist” for his contribution to the development of Murano glass, promoting a new style during the 1950s that came to be known as the “sommerso style”. In 1934 he began working as a glassmaker for the the Barovier, Seguso, & Ferro company in Murano (which later became Seguso Vetri d'Arte), of which he became a partner and artistic director. During these years of his career he designed together with Archimede Seguso, creating complex lighting installations in Murano glass. . In the post-war years he conceived the style of submerged glass, a technique created by superimposing several layers of glass with different consistencies of colours, thus introducing into the world of Murano glass with a strong thickness which is in stark contrast with the processes in vogue at the time, he thus accomplished a very important innovation for the time which allowed him to win the Compasso d'Oro award.  

Poli is known and appreciated for the theme of the female nude, and he was the first to address this theme in Murano where we can see it in the composter from the 1930s, a central female bust with a gripping function.  

Over the course of his career, Flavio Poli created different objects representing different subjects, such as for the Company of Venice and Murano which created massive animals in glass.