中文简介：

无论是家庭照明，还是政府大楼、邮局、剧院或酒店等公共或私人空间的大型照明，都是穆拉诺玻璃生产的重要组成部分。Venini公司在这一领域取得了显著成就，特别是由于其现代化能力和对设计世界的开放性。本书介绍了Venini公司在照明领域的工作和成就，记录了从1921年到1985年的众多具有历史和文化意义的项目，其中包括20世纪30年代与Angiolo Mazzoni合作进行的项目，1951年威尼斯格拉西宫的天鹅堡制作，意大利建筑师Carlo Scarpa为都灵的Italia 61制作的大型装置，1978年德国的富尔达剧院等等。书中还介绍了Venini灯具、其形式和材料的转变，从传统的带臂吊灯的优雅改造到带有模块化元素的新装置。本书的材料来自于历史上的Venini档案，大部分都是以前未曾发表过的，还附有丰富的文献资料和图片。

英文简介：

Lighting, whether for domestic use or for the grander areas of public or private spaces of ministerial buildings or post offices, of theatres or hotels, represents an important constituent of Murano glass production. The Venini firm distinguished itself with significant results also in this sector, particularly because of its constant ability to modernise and its characteristic openness to the world of design, aspects which made it a reference point for the foremost national and international architects.

This volume, which covers a period from 1921 to 1985, illustrates the work of the glassworks in the area of lighting, on the larger or smaller scale, giving an overview of the most significant projects. More than five hundred cards, accompanied by a considerable body of hitherto mostly unpublished iconographic illustrations, document an unremitting activity made up of numerous projects of historical and cultural importance, among which those carried out in collaboration with Angiolo Mazzoni in the 1930s, the production of the velarium of Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 1951, the large installation by Carlo Scarpa for Italia 61 in Turin, the Fulda theatre in Germany in 1978 etc. A careful selection of works tells of the transformation of Venini lamps, their form and their material: from the elegant reworking of the traditional chandelier with arms to the new fixtures with modular elements.

The volume, with material coming from the historic Venini archive and for the greater part unpublished previously, is also accompanied by a rich documentary apparatus made up of a substantial corpus of graphic illustrations (catalogue drawings, preparatory drawings for the Blue Catalogue and the pages of the Red Catalogue) for a total of more than four hundred images that contribute to telling the extraordinary story of the Venini company and light.