Thanks to his talent for keeping constantly up to date and his immense openness towards the world of design, Venini made lighting for large public spaces a touchstone for the most important architects of the twentieth century. A pair of extraordinary installations reconstruct two of his iconic pieces: the Velario made in 1951 for the roof of Palazzo Grassi and formed by a series of ‘festoons’ with steel cables and spheres in balloton crystal glass (disassembled in 1985), and the monumental chandelier of polychrome polyhedrons composed of around three thousand elements and designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Veneto pavilion at the Turin Italia 61 expo for the centenary of the unification of Italy.
