| Flavio Poli | |
| Birth Date: | 1900 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Awards: | Compasso d'Oro |
Flavio Poli (1900–1984) was an Italian artist, known for his designs in glass.[1] [2]
Born in 1900, he was trained at the, then began work as a ceramicist.
In 1929, he began working for the company "I.V.A.M." (Italian: [[Industrie Vetraie Artistiche Murano]]) as a designer of glassware. He was appointed artistic director of Italian: Barovier, Seguso & Ferro (later Italian: [[Seguso Vetri d’Arte]]) in 1934, where he devised a style of 'submerged' glass, with several transparent layers, one over the other.[3] Within three years, he was a partner in the company. Poli received one of the inaugural Compasso d'Oro awards in 1954 for the Seguso “Mod. 9822” blue-ruby glass vase.[4] He left Seguso in 1963.[5]
From 1964 to 1966 he led the artistic glass division of the Italian: [[Società Veneziana di Conterie e Cristallerie]].
Poli died in 1984. A number of his works are in the Murano Glass Museum, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia;[6] the Corning Museum of Glass,[7] and the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York.[8] [9]