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In 1984 the Voltolina brothers, heirs of a long Venetian tradition in the manufacture of glass, decided to diversify their production by producing high-quality glass for lighting systems. ...
Giuseppe Briati (Murano, 1686 - Venice, 1772) was born in Murano from a family that for generations was an expert in glass, and therefore entered in the Golden Book of Murano. In 1733, Br...
The Toso family has a 700-year uninterrupted tradition of Murano glass blowing, creating glass vessels that became the jealously guarded treasures of Venetian aristocracy. The past 50 years of th...
Adriano Berengo was born in Venice in 1947 and lives between Venice and Beirut. The biography of Berengo contemplates a degree in Languages at Ca 'Foscari and a doctorate in Comparative Literature...
1936-2010 In his long career as a glass maker, Elio Quarisa worked at the finest glass factories in Murano, beginning at Barovier & Toso glassworks at the age of nine, to help support his fa...
Glass historian. Descended from one of the ancient Venetian glass families, Rosa Barovier Mentasti graduated in Ancient Letters at the University of Padua in 1973 with a thesis on ancient...
Martin started working with glass at the age of 13 in his father's factory in the Czech Republic. His secondary school education focused on creating glass artwork at the Novy Bor School. In...
Eduino Ferro was for years the first master of the Pauly & C. glassworks with which he participated in the Universal Exhibition in Chicago in 1934. A year later he founded ...
Born in Chioggia (Venice, Italy) in 1900, he died in Venice in 1984. In 1929 Flavio Poli collaborated with the I.V.A.M. - of which he was a partner Libero Vitali - ...
He was a Muranese priest and historian, who founded the Murano Glass Museum in 1861 with the intent to restore the lustre of Muranese glassmaking and relaunch the industry that was going throu...
Thomas was born in Murano in 1980. From a very young age he was fascinated by the world of glass with which he is surrounded. After graduation he decided to contact Dario Frare to be introduced...
Born in Murano in 1952. Known by all as Moreno, he began his apprenticeship in various furnaces, including Cenedese , Alfredo Barbini and Civam. Over time he pe...
In the late 1960s an exclusive relationship developed between Pauly & C. , C.V.M. and Enzo Scarpa. Professor Enzo Scarpa was a painter and a designer who would be resposab...
Angelo Barovier (15th century)
(Agnolo from Murano). - He was a great innovator of the fifteenth century glass art. Son of Jacopo, born probably at the end of the 14th century, he is remembered with discrete freq...
Leopold Blaschka (27 May 1822 - 3 July 1895) and his son Rudolf Blaschka (17 June 1857 - 1 May 1939) were glass craftsmen originally from Dresden, famous for the creation of botanical models and ...
Born in Venice in 1936. At fifteen he began his apprenticeship in the Seguso-Dalla venezia furnace, where he met Pietro Scaramal, his first master. He then moved on to Salviat...
He was born in Monza in 1970. In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic. In 2003 he obtained the title of PhD in Architectural Composition at the Isti...
Antonio Colleoni was born in Mirano and in 1810 he moved to Murano to run his pharmacy. When Veneto was annexed to Italy, he assumed the effective office of Mayor for the duration of thre...