Francesco Zecchin

Biography

Born in Murano in 1894, he died there in 1986. He studied engineering at the University of Padua. In 1925 he became a partner of Venini & Co., and later left it together with Napoleone Martinuzzi in 1932, in order to open the Zecchin - Martinuzzi Vetri Artistici e Mosaici, furnace that was closed in 1939. After the Second World War he practiced his profession and builded many furnaces in Murano.