Glass Table Lamp by Carlo Nason for A. V. Mazzega (attributed)

The Italian glass designer Carlo Nason (born 1935 in Murano) grew up in a family of glassmakers spanning several generations and learned the craft in practice, directly in the family's Vetreria V. Nason & C., rather than at a school. As early as the end of the 1950s his vases were acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. His most important and longest collaboration was with A.V. Mazzega, for which he worked as a largely independent designer, among other things on the Cascata chandelier series with pyramid-like tiers of mouth-blown glass panes and on the lamp models LS 120, LS 134 ('Medusa') and LS 153. Further designs were made for I TRE and Murano Due. Stylistically, Nason moved away from the traditionally richly coloured Murano glass aesthetic and preferred clear, layered glass constructions, often in opaline or colourless glass, with a reduced, modern design language.