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  • Fabio Fornasier - Vi The divine chandelier

Vi The "divine" chandelier

Art and design for two age-old Italian artistic traditions: the Venetian blown glass technique and the art of winemaking. A work of art that, with each element, conveys artistic creation and the slow, tiring work of the artisan. Designed to celebrate the kinship between wine and the pure material in which it is held – glass – Vi is a chandelier commissioned by the Antica Fratta wine firm produced with bottle glass. It is made up of 180 Franciacorta wine bottles that were cut down and hot-worked in the glassworks to be transformed by Venetian Master Glassmaker Fabio Fornasier into the component parts of a grand Rezzonico chandelier. The collaboration between the Master Glassmaker from Murano and Antica Fratta is a meeting of like minds: the artwork is wonderfully successful in espousing the theme of the exhibition that the winery puts on every year, an exhibition focussed on "artistic, historic, industrial" glass pieces. "Vi" is historic in its Venetian heritage, artistic as only a piece bearing the "made in Murano" label can be, and as industrial as the raw material it is made from, namely bottle glass. With this project, Antica Fratta enter the world of glassmaking, the expressive medium closest to their own product.

Watch the video November 2005: "Vi" e Antica Fratta