Cenedese Submerged Glass
Candle Holder by Antonio DaRos for Cenedese – 1970’s
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Cenedese
The GINO CENEDESE and SON glassworks owes its name to the founder, belonging to a family of ancient roots from Murano. 
Working the glass on the island of Murano is, and was even more so in the past, the destiny of the men over many generations: it was also the destiny of Gino Cenedese (1907-1973), who went into the glass furnace at the age of 9 learning the craft from different glass masters.
In 1946, at the end of the war, encouraged by the new times he founded the GINO CENEDESE & C glassworks. Under his guidance the glassworks, enjoyed a great stimulus establishing itself both at a national and international level because of the high quality of the production. Alongside the ancient tradition of glassmaking at Murano with the production of blown glass, goblets, vases, plates and world-famous Venetian chandeliers, Gino Cenedese was able to expand into the attractions of contemporary art, to the continuous research into new ways of enhancing and interpreting the properties of glass, a fascinating and brilliant material.
From the collaboration with different artists beginning in the Fifties historical objects were involved in important national and international exhibitions (at the Venice Biennale of 1950 with sculptures created in part with the prototypes of the master Barbini, in 1952 with fascinating and innovative blocks with submerged figures and abstract motifs – types of aquariums – by Riccardo Licata; in 1954 with the creation of “Little Theatre and Window” by the designer Fulvio Bianconi).
From 1953 to 1958 the Cenedese family took advantage of the collaboration with the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, the creator of female figures in solid glass and bas-relief panels and designer of large-sized chandeliers.
In the same period they created “submerged” glass forms designed by the painter Luigi Scarpa Croce.
Subsequently the company undertook a continuing collaboration with Antonio
Da Ros, an artist fascinated by the decorative and chromatic possibilities of the material, who from a young age learned all the secrets of the glassmaking art from the Cenedese family. With Da Ros, the Seventies saw an important creation of the “submerged” glass forms among which the “Contrappunti”, fluids submerged playing on different tones of colours (works present at the various Venice Biennale Exhibitions, to many of the Milan Triennial Exhibitions and other important international exhibitions). Da Ros is a solid presence in glassmaking: under his artistic direction various lines of modern fancy goods have been developed, characterized by stylised forms with coloured glass submersion.
In addition to fancy goods, important works have also been created by the Cenedese family in the field of lighting, both in the traditional style and in the design.
Amelio Cenedese has succeeded his father Gino, continuing the work following the guidelines already laid out. Presently the firms employs 60 workers in the production sector and 25 workers in the commercial sector, making one of the biggest employment complexes in Murano, where all the forms of artistic glass have been created.
Source:www.cenedesegino.it