Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection

Over 300 works from the Bischofberger Collection celebrate the beauty of artistic glass in an exhibition featuring masterpieces by the most important Finnish designers of the 20th century.

This important exhibition features the best of Finnish and international design thanks to the unprecedented loan of over 300 glass works from the Bischofberger private collection. The beauty of artistic glass features masterpieces by the foremost 20th century Finnish designers: Aino and Alvar Aalto, Arttu Brummer, Kaj Franck, Göran Hongell, Gunnel Nyman, Timo Sarpaneva, Oiva Toikka and Tapio Wirkkala.

The exhibition offers the public a unique opportunity to view some very rare objects, often unique or early production pieces, which Christina and Bruno Bischofberger have collected with passion and insight over the past forty years.

This rich collection, curated by Kaisa Koivisto and Pekka Korvenmaa for Le Stanze del Vetro on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, brings to the public the greatest examples of a century-long glass production, with all its declinations and variations, in a celebration of a timeless design of the highest quality.

Whether the objects are fun, practical or simply decorative, all the works on display are the result of a creative force and a technical know-how that have their roots in ancient times but that have shown that the glass medium can be used in dynamic and original ways, producing shapes and objects that have rewritten the history of both Scandinavian and International design.

To quote the motto of Iittala: “The shape that moves. And the movement never stops”.