We can thank the Fourth Crusade for Venetian glass. When Constantinople was invaded at the beginning of the thirteenth century, fleeing Byzantine artisans found their way to Venice, bringing with them their famed glassblowing craft. Since then, the glass produced in Venice has become more and more famous. Today's Venetian glassblowers continue to use centuries-old tools and techniques, keeping the Venetian glass crisp, beautiful, delicate, and rich in color.

Red Venetian Glass Vessel Sink. Manufactured by Boxart.

Ravishing Ruby Red Sink

Boxart

, an Italian bathroom design company, recognizes the allure of Venetian glass and uses it to create stylish vessel sinks. Their Red Venetian Glass Vessel Sink, part of their Virtù line of contemporary furniture, which includes bathtubs, washbasins, and shower trays in natural stone, crystal, resin, and wood, presents a splash of color in a lovely round shape. The intense dark ruby takes center stage as a vessel sink-as it projects from the vanity, its hue floats in its own space, a galaxy of pure crystal color.

The Red Venetian Glass Vessel Sink looks stunning atop Boxart's wengè wood furniture,  whose square and unspoiled lines contrast with the organic curves of the round vessel sink. The Virtù line of bath furniture adds "warm and elegant shades, pleasant to the touch, pure and natural." Against the rich brown, the Red Venetian Glass Vessel Sink looks like a cherry tucked inside a chocolate bonbon.

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About the Manufacturer: Boxart began in 1993 as a manufacturer of bathroom accessories in alabaster. Since then, the Italian company (based in Firenze) has expanded its bathroom collection, "making design and material research its principal goal." Currently, the two collections offered by Boxart, Vizi and Virtù, include bathtubs, washbasins, tops, furniture, and accessories. Boxart produces bathroom products in crystal glass, natural stone, and rich wood.