Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle | |
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Born | Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle
<> 7 April 1963 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Died | 30 May 2013 Paris, France | (aged 50)
Spouse(s) |
Brandino Brandolini d'Adda
(
m. 1987) |
Issue | Guido Brandolini d'Adda Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda Gioacchino Brandolini d'Adda |
Father | Armand Angliviel de la Beaumelle |
Mother | Baroness Béatrice Juliette Ruth de Rothschild |
Occupation | glass maker |
Marie Brandolini d'Adda di Valmareno (née Angliviel de la Beaumelle; 7 April 1963 – 30 May 2013) was a French-Italian glass maker.
Marie Angliviel de la Beaumelle was born on April 7, 1963, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. [1] Her father was Armand Angliviel de la Beaumelle, a member of a prominent haute bourgeois family from Languedoc, [1] and her mother was Baroness Béatrice Juliette Ruth de Rothschild, a member of the aristocratic Rothschild family.[ citation needed] Her maternal grandfather was Baron Alain de Rothschild. On her father's side she is a distant relation to Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle. After her father died, her mother remarried Pierre Rosenberg in 1981. [2]
She married Brandino Brandolini d'Adda, the son of Brandolino Brandolini d'Adda, Conte di Valmareno, a descendant of a Venetian patrician family and Cristiana Agnelli, in November 1987 in Paris. [3] The couple had three sons: Guido, Marcantonio, and Gioacchino. They resided in the Palazzo Brandolini on the Grand Canal in Venice and at Vistorta, a family estate in Friuli. [3]
Angliviel de la Beaumelle worked as a contemporary glass designer in Venice, founding the company Laguna~B in 1994. [4] [3] [5] She also served as the president of the French Alliance of Venice, which promoted French culture in Italy. [5] She was also a patron of the Murano Glass Museum and the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. [6] She has discussed the process she uses to make glass art in the media, including in Architectural Digest. [7]
She died from cancer, aged 50, on 30 May 2013. [8] [9] [10] She was given a Catholic funeral at the Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus in Vistorta. [11] [12] After her death, the Mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, offered his condolences to the Brandolini d'Adda family and referred to Angliviel de la Beaumelle as "a friend of Venice, a tireless animator of the cultural and artistic life of the Lagoon." [13] Upon her death, her son Marcantonio took over the company Laguna~B. [14]