Davide Fuin
D. F. Glassworks, Murano Vasi Veronese, 1962
Free-blown glass vases in assorted colours; height 31 cm
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Villa Singer, Marco Arosio, Milan.
Marco Arosio is a Milan antique dealer specialising in twentieth-century Murano glass, ceramics and wrought iron. His collection and his business are based at Villa Singer, on the Naviglio della Martesana.
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Villa Singer
In Milan, anyone walking, jogging or cycling along the Naviglio della Martesana usually slows down, fascinated by a cherry-coloured villa surrounded by a large garden with a white wrought-iron gazebo reflected in the canal.
This fragment of countryside, miraculously intact, is Villa Singer, owned by the antique dealer Marco Arosio and his family.
A corner of Milan that looks as if it came out of a sepia postcard from the late nineteenth century, unchanged since decades ago, when Gorla, as the district is called, was a small village on the edge of the city.
Its story began more than a century ago. “It was built at the end of the nineteenth century by an Austrian as a perfume distillery”, says Marco Arosio. “Being close to a navigable waterway made it ideal for a business.” And he recalls: “in 1930 it was bought by my great-grandfather, who wanted to retire to the countryside to grow vines and let my grandmother, a painter, work in peace”...
This fragment of countryside, miraculously intact, is Villa Singer, owned by the antique dealer Marco Arosio and his family.
A corner of Milan that looks as if it came out of a sepia postcard from the late nineteenth century, unchanged since decades ago, when Gorla, as the district is called, was a small village on the edge of the city.
Its story began more than a century ago. “It was built at the end of the nineteenth century by an Austrian as a perfume distillery”, says Marco Arosio. “Being close to a navigable waterway made it ideal for a business.” And he recalls: “in 1930 it was bought by my great-grandfather, who wanted to retire to the countryside to grow vines and let my grandmother, a painter, work in peace”...
Chiara Bondioli
Published in Spazio Casa, September 2002.
Published in Spazio Casa, September 2002.
Marco Arosio
"Glass is not my only passion, though: my interest extends to the other materials forged by fire, namely ceramics and iron.
For years I have been going to Faenza, where I met the most gifted and cultured maker of ceramics, Davide Gatti Servadei, and for years I organised the antique ceramics fair (1999-2001)."
For years I have been going to Faenza, where I met the most gifted and cultured maker of ceramics, Davide Gatti Servadei, and for years I organised the antique ceramics fair (1999-2001)."
Marco Arosio
The five colours: grey, amber, pink, lilac and purple
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