Description
Egidio Castelli and Vetreria Bisanzio Gallery, [No date: circa 2010]. Hardcover, 117 pp.; 31 cm; text in Italian and English; illustrated with color photographs, many digitally altered, and one sepia photograph.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition, no dust jacket. Glossy pictorial boards, Luca Vidal in white on spine; mild shelf wear, chipping to paper at top corner of front board, small patches of surface loss near upper outer corner of rear board, chip at head of rear joint, whitened corners, small flecks of color loss along spine joints. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Monograph on Murano glassmaker Luca Vidal (b. Venice, 1976), almost entirely images: vessels and sculpture, some pieces shown twice in different photographic treatments, with Vidal at the furnace and views of Murano. Photographs by Castelli. Only text is a one-page biography on p. 117. Vidal began at 14 at Vetreria DIPI under Imperio Rossi, worked at Effetre International with Giancarlo Tagliapietra and others, started the Polycromy glassworks in 2001 and assisted Pino Signoretto. Italian text also lists his demonstrations and lessons in American cities.