A pair of Flavio Sommerso square block vases c.1960.Flavio Poli was an Italian artist known for his designs in glass, and lived from 1900 to 1984. He was trained at the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia, then began work as a ceramicist. In 1929, he began working for the company “I.V.A.M.” as a designer of glassware. He was then appointed artistic director of Barovier, Seguso & Ferro in 1934, where he devised a style of “Sommerso” (submerged’ glass), with several transparent layers, one over the other. The grey Sommerso vase, is a rarer colour and not seen as often as the more colourful designs.