Three bonbonnières from the exhibition 'Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini', Venice

Three bonbonnières from the current exhibition Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini, held on the Island of San Giorgio in Venice.

The exhibition focuses on the work of Vittorio Zucchini (1878-1947) for the glassware company Cappellin and Venini, of which he was artistic director. 

Essential, classical lines and colours feature his production of vases, bowls, plates, fruit stands and dinner services, and these three bonbonnières designed between 1921 and 1926. 

Simple transparent glass boxes to be filled in with sweet confetti, in light-blue, green and dark amethyst colours with lids decorated with fresh and cheerful applied flowers and leaves in glass.

Photos:

TravelinaGarden, Venice, September 2017

Link:
Vittorio Zecchin: Transparent Glass for Cappellin and Venini
Curated by Marino Barovier
11 September 2017 - 7 January 2018
Le Stanze del Vetro/ Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
http://lestanzedelvetro.org

Clouds in Bikaner

Yesterday, I read this tweet by Robert Macfarlane‏: 

@RobGMacfarlane  "Forty names for clouds": remarkable photo-essay by @AratiKumarRao on language & land in the Thar Desert, NW India

I clicked on the link of the article and I was there.

I was again in India, in the Thar Desert, in the city of Bikaner, in the Junagarh Fort, in a room called Badal Mahal whose walls and ceiling are painted with rain-bearing clouds and lightings. 

A room, they said, decorated to show the children of the royal family what a storm was like. To prepare them, mist was sprayed from an opening in the wall and metal plates beaten, outside the room, to mimic the threatening sound of the thunder. 

Because children did not know rain and clouds as they seldom come in the Thar Desert.

I wonder if even these swollen rain clouds painted on the walls have a name like those in the sky beyond the ramparts and the city. 

Photos:

TravelinaGarden, Jaisalmer/Bikaner, India, August 2010

Further reading:
Arati Kumar-Rao, Forty Names Of Clouds,
http://peepli.org/stories/names-of-clouds/