The celebrated Venetian architect Carlos Scarpa viewed glass as raw material for experimentation and research, and was challenged by this vastly suggestive age-old art. Now back in print, this beautifully-designed volume represents the first catalogue raisonne of Scarpa's entire glass output. It features over four hundred artistic glass pieces executed by the great architect between 1927 and 1947 for the Murano glassmaking firms of Giacomo Cappellin and Paolo Venini. The works represent an important part of the early years of his activity: over three hundred pieces, often unique prototypes, which reveal Scarpa's exceptional designing inventiveness. The incredible variety of typologies and decorative types include the "lattimi" (milk-white opaque glass), the "a incalmo" (grafted) series, the "Phoenician" decoration to other famous styles such as "tessere" (mosaic-like pieces) and "a bollicine (tiny bubbles). Essays by Marino Barovier, Tobia Scarpa, Luciano Gemin, Gigi Scarpa, Alain Irvine, Sergio Polano, Marina Barovier and Ferruccio Franzoia retrace Scarpa's singular artistic experience through his creations, which are outstanding in their research in materials, their synthesis of forms and early modernity. The book also provides an interesting opportunity to compare Scarpa's activity as designer and as architect, combining curiosity, meticulousness and the urge to experiment, whether in creating small objects or in measuring himself with the most demanding architectural projects. With its rich array of illustrations and extensive reference section, this book is an essential source for historians, collectors, dealers, and connoisseurs of art.