Venini Clessidra, n.d., 11.5 in tall, selling 30 Apr 2026 at Wright20 Wright can auction 86 Venini hourglasses over the years, and they just drift by unnoticed. But then one night there’ll be a foot-tall hourglass standing alone in the midst of enough useless silver and gilt objets, tchotchkes, and designer ashtrays to start a revolution, with the blue and blue of the sea on a summer evening, and you’re staying up late, looking up technical glassblowing terms in Italian: clessidra, incalmo, Lol and then just as you’re about to post, you find the Venini channel on YouTube, and you see the promo for the Peter Marino Collection, and the two-toned capsule-shaped vases by a designer who cites The Matrix which are named after hormones and called Happy Pills, and you’re like, oh right, we need to fill up all the clessidre with gasoline and storm the palace. Lot 213, 30 Apr 2026, [Fulvio Bianconi &] Paolo Venini, Clessidra/Hourglass, est. $800-1200 [wright20]
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