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USA - November 17, 1917 – August 13, 2003He was an American designer, artist and sculptor.The New York Times described his work as defining "an era".He created furniture, flatware, dresses, jewelr...
Born in Murano in 1855 and died in Vallada Agordina (Italy, Bl) in 1932. He became a Master at Salviati & Co. In 1873 he has been among the founders of the F.lli Baro...
Aldo Bergamini was born in Bottrighe (Rovigo) on May 14, 1903 and died in Venice on February 11, 1981. Self-taught, he frequently exhibited his paintings up to 1927. Although he had wo...
Born in St. Petersburg Nov 4th 1899. Studied at the Ranson Academy in Paris with Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard from 1919 to 1925. He moved to the U.S. in 1940 and took up U.S....
Known as Boboli. Still very young, he began working at the Cappellin Venini & C. company where he made wonderful creations both of the Bianconi figurines and the murrine vases of Paolo Venini...
Born in 1786, dead in 1876. A great glassware researcher and technician, he gave new life to venetian blown glass in the nineteenth century. He was the first man who made paperweights with the incl...
Born in 1903 in Bale where he studied at the Ecole des Art et Metiers. He first moved to Paris and later, for a few years, to Spain where he joined the Allianz. He exhibited in Germany and Switzer...
Joint owner of the firm Pauly & Co. Taken over with C.V.M.'s in 1919 by the Societa' Anonima Sanitaria of Milan (Italy), both sold in 1920. From that time the two firms go together in the ...
Known as Polo. Born in Murano in 1906 where he died in 1988. Master glassblower at Aureliano Toso's in cooperation with Dino Martens from 1939 to 1955.Together with Adriano Quarisa in 1960 he est...
Born in Argenteuil in 1882, he died in Paris in 1963. Impressionist, fauviste, cubist, he made friend with Picasso . He introduced into painting new techniques tending to ...
Born in Sondrio (Italy) in 1900, he died in Rapallo in 1981. After getting an architecture degree at the Politecnico di in 1923, he worked with Gio Ponti , Pietro Chiesa , G...
Born in Venice in 1892 where he died in 1975. He presented his paintings successfully at the 1911 International exhibits in Rome, as a "Liberty Style" painter. In 1926 and in 1929 he exhibited...
Born in Ancona (Italy) in 1910, he died in Rome in 1976. He studied at the Rome Academy and was attracted to fresco techniques. Together with Capogrossi, Cavalli and Melli he started the "Scuo...
Born in Philadelphia in 1898, he died in New York in 1976. After getting his degree in engineering he attended courses on design. He went to Paris in 1926, where he exhibited his first sculptures m...
Born in Mestre (near Venice) in 1896 and died in Venice in 1978. Landscape painter active in the 30s, he is one of the founding partners of Centro Studi Pittori Arte del Vetro, later Fucina degli A...
Born in Venice on 29 May 1887 from Antonio and Giacomina Trevisan, he owes a well-deserved fame to the experience of a glass entrepreneur in Murano. It was a short but intense experience no...
Born in Venice in 1931 where he died in 1993. Painter, decorator and designer; in 1953 he got his diploma in decoration at the Venice Institute of Art where he taught from 1961 on. During his ...
Born in Murano in 1907, where he died in 1973. He started his career in the glass factory MVM Cappellin & Co. In 1946 he opened his own furnaces where he had some of the b...