While working at the Venini & Company factory, Carlo Scarpa experimented with glassmaking techniques first practiced in Murano during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Thanks to the support and initiative of his boss, Paolo Venini, Scarpa was able to achieve fame his works in glass. This success Scarpa experienced while working with glass surely helped to spark his creativity in design for architectural works created later in his career. Although Scarpa did not actually blow any of his own glass, his unique designs are some of the most renowned pieces of glass art in history. Scarpa’s unconventional use of traditional methods in murrino, lattimo, sommerso, and filigrana techniques have yielded especially beautiful works of glass. Scarpa used light and shape to create interesting and unusual design elements in his pieces.
