Dan Dailey discusses his time at Venini. Oral history interview with Dan Dailey by Barb Elam, April 26, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. 01:28.

Dan Dailey: You know, I went to Venini, very interested in what was going in Italian design, more in say furniture in Milan than in—and my—I made lamps while I was there, and I was mostly interested in making some things that to me would be based on my sense of—not what Italian design looked like at the time, but what I thought could be my—I don’t know—not contribution, but my take on the attitudes of the designers there. It was very experimental, very colorful, kind of playful, and, to me, open ended. And so in retrosp—I mean at the end I realized, well, I sort of totally blew it, cause my stuff was way too crazy. And not paying attention to the subtleties of their product—Venini’s product. It’s just, I wasn’t interested in the glassblowing side of it, and how to be a better glassblower, but a lot of my friends who went—kind of picked up techniques or, you know, in a sense based what they did later on things that they were taught or things they observed and tried. So I just didn’t have that same reason for being there.