I Lirici was a well known furnace in the 90s now closed.Luigi Straffi and Dario Fagiolo were the leading designers of a collection of sculptures that took up epic themes or paid homage to cult works drawn from history.The brand was born to produce and market works of art using...

When:  from 22 March 2022 to 9 September 2022Where: Italy - Arts, Design, Museums - Casalmaggiore (CR)Organized by: Museo del BijouType of event: Museums, ExhibitionOfficial Website Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, following the industrialization process, glass diversified its identity: on the one hand, a product of fine and very high craftsmanship."Glass, kaleidoscopic and...

With jewellery, we can express ourselves more deeply, relive key times in our lives, and relive memories that we will cherish forever. Unique Murano glass jewels are handcrafted by the most talented glassworkers in the world. That's why it's impossible to predict how each piece will look because of its...

Not everybody knows that Murano is just a place. Murano is the island lying few hundred meters away from Venice, where all of the furnaces producing glass were transferred in 1295 by decree of the Republic of Venice, to prevent fires in the city. In the global era, even Murano...

Why investing in fine arte made in Murano is a good choice Venetian glass is renowned all over the world for its exquisite and timeless beauty. The very heart of Venetian glassmaking can be found on the island of Murano, where this ancient craft has been honed and perfected since...

"How do I recognise authentic Murano Glass?" . "Is this authentic Murano Glass?" . We often get asked those questions and have already dealt with this subject in the article « A Guide to original Murano Glass » or even in our FAQs page . But we want to start...

Publisher ‏ : ‎Arsenale; Illustrated edizioneLanguage ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎887743208XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-8877432087Item Weight ‏ : ‎240 g

Until the first half of the 70s, Murano glass producers were not accustomed to signing the objects they produced. One of the exceptions was the Compagnia di Venezia and Murano - Pauly & C . - which since the early years of the last century, occasionally applied an engraving that...

What's the history of Murano glass? Murano glass charms thousands of people around the world. But what is its history? What are its origins? We have visited the renewed Glass Museum in Murano for you. The Glass Museum of Murano was founded in 1861 when the mayor Antonio Colleoni and...

Author: Franco DeboniHardcover: 419 pagesPublisher: Bocca EditoriISBN-10 ‏: ‎ 2859172882ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-2859172886Item Weight ‏: ‎ 5.34 poundsDimensions ‏: ‎ 8.66 x 1.77 x 11.81 inches

Martino Naia Signoretto was born in Venice on 1st November 1990.From an early age he shows a particular, ability and interest in drawing.After finishing primary school, he enrolled at the Liceo Artistico in Venice where he affirmed and developed his artistic skills.His passion for the world of glass begins much...

Publisher ‏ : Skira (13 gennaio 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ ItalianHardcover ‏ : ‎ 268 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎8857246221ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-8857246222Item Weight ‏ : ‎2040 gSize: 31 x 3 x 29 cm Book published on the occasion of the exhibition "Tapio Wirkkala alla Venini + Toni Zuccheri alla Venini" at the Stanze Del Vetro in the island of San Giorgio, Venice Buy on Ebay

Publisher ‏ : Skira (13 gennaio 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ ItalianHardcover ‏ : ‎ 260 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎8857246213ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎978-8857246215Item Weight ‏ : ‎2000 gSize: 31 x 3 x 29 cm Book published on the occasion of the exhibition "Tapio Wirkkala alla Venini + Toni Zuccheri alla Venini" at the Stanze Del Vetro in the island of San Giorgio, Venice Buy on Ebay

From 3rd December 2021 to 13th March 2022 SILICON DIOXIDE, the new solo exhibition by Tony Cragg at the Museo del Vetro in Murano runs from 3 December 2021 to 13 March 2022, and features a variety of works several of which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition retraces...

Publisher : ‎ Arnoldsche; 1° edizione (25 giugno 2020) Language: ‎ IngleseHardcover: ‎ 367 pagineISBN-10: ‎ 3897905884 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-3897905887Item Weight: ‎ 2.3 kgDimensions: ‎ 24.26 x 3.02 x 30.71 cm Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) was funded in 1932The new factory placed a very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production...

Born in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Maria Grazia Rosin lives and works in Venice. She trained at the Cortina Art Institute and, under the guidance of Emilio Vedova, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1983.In 1992 with the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation she experimented with glass creations...

From 21 November 2021 to 13 March 2022."Tapio Wirkkala at Venini" and "Toni Zuccheri at Venini" are two exhibitions side by side on the wonderful island of San Giorgio in Venice (in front of Piazza San Marco. Both curated by Marino Barovier and dedicated to two artists and designers active...

He was born in 1952 in Venice, Italy, where he still lives and works.He graduated from the Venice State Institute of Art. He attended painting courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venezia. He carries out his activity as an artist in the field of contemporary art with large-scale...

Antonio Seguso known as Toni Patàre was born on 8 June 1884, in Murano, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy, his father, Giovanni Seguso  (known as Nane Patàre), was 31 and his mother, Caterina Vianello, was 29. He married Maddalena Cattelan on 29 June 1907, in Murano, Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy. They were...

Born 1899 Died 1979. He was a master at Venini, specializing in the making of female busts. Fulvio Bianconi frequently used his ability to make his creations. Ermete Toso with Paolo Venini, holding a Pezzato vase in his hand.  

Edited by di S. Pezzoli, A. Zepponi The extraordinary creative experience of a seventh-grade class struggling with artistic glass. The initiative is inspired by a famous story by Karen Blixen: Babettes gæstebud.The students draw objects that will then be made by the glass masters of Murano. A fruitful exchange on...

The term liuli entered the Chinese arts and crafts taxonomy after contacts with the Western Regions in Chinese Central Asia during the Han dynasty.  Written in various  homophonic characters, liuli is most frequently encountered in Chinese texts as referring to opaque glass or gemstones, but it can mean ‘glaze’ or anything with...

Having been an acclaimed novelist as early as nineteen, Chang Yi began his career as a director. In the 1980s, after being crowned Best Director at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, Chang left the film industry. Chang Yi has lived with primary vascular lesions since he was young and this gave...

From 4th September 2021 to 6th January 2022. Murano Glass Toys, scheduled at the Murano Glass Museum from 4 September to 3 October 2021, is an exhibition that has the declared objective of revolutionizing the common perception of glass by presenting 13 huge games made by as many Murano glass...

Roberto Donà is now the owner of the Carlo Donà factory, where metal tools are produced for the Murano glass industry.Since 1923 the Carlo Donà factory has been forging high quality tools for the production of Murano glass products. Four generations of locksmiths have achieved a level of quality and...

Bubacco, born on Murano in 1957, began playing with glass as a boy, making small animals, beads, and the usual lamp-worker's tablet. At fifteen he received his artisan's license and began marketing flame-worked Venetian memorabilia. His fascination with anatomy, equine and human, lured him to push bit by bit beyond...

Dante Marioni was born in 1964 in Mill Valley, California. In 1979, the Marioni family moved to Seattle and Dante began to study glassblowing at The Glass Eye. He spent summers at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington where his father taught.After graduating from high school, he started to...

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pennsylvania Press; 2nd edition (December 3, 2001) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 081223619X ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812236194 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.9 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.1 x 10.7...

From November 6, 2021 – April 24, 2022 Where: Fuller Craft Museum – 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301 - https://fullercraft.org/ Official Website At the "Glass Lifeforms 2021" exhibition you will admire reproductions of biological models made of glass. The idea was born as a continuation of the wonderful works...

DE MAJO - D.M. Luce s.r.l. Giuliano De Mayo founds the DE MAYO glassworks immediately after World War II. He moved from Naples to the Venetian lagoon, and in 1947 he began his activity in the first furnace in Murano. In a short time he fully understands the spirit of...

Leucos was born in 1962 in Scorzé near Venice and then moved to Salzano. The creator and founder of Leucos is Eugenio Pamio, who together with Renato and Giusto Toso - sons of Ermanno Toso, Murano master glassmaker - experiment with new shapes and colors combined with light. The Leucos...

Cappellin Venini & C. was founded in 1921 by Giacomo Cappellin , and Paolo Venini . The production, curated by Vittorio Zecchin as artistic director, and carried out by glass masters: Nane (Patàre) Seguso , Diego Barovier , Nino Pavanello and Attilio Moratto , immediately stood out for the thin...

The Oball artistic glass factory, founded by Luigi Onesto , then joined by his sons Fabio and Michele, has been active for over 30 years. Oball brand operates mainly in the gift and furnishing objects sector. Onesto family has always stood out for its commitment to the qualitative research of...

Born in Copenhagen in 1916. He joined the cubist movement and represented Denmark at the 1968 Venice Biennale. He's written for " Kunst " Magazine. His work is represented in the museums of Copenhagen, Cincinnati, Reykjavik and Warsaw. He worked for Fucina Degli Angeli during the 60s.

Born in Stockholm (Sweden) in 1879, she died in Asolo (Italy, Tv) in 1957. She studied art graphics at Stockholm's Konstakademien between 1899 and 1905. In 1908 she married Guido Balsamo Stella and moved to Italy in 1919. She taught in Venice at the Carmini State Institute of Art and...

Born in Venice in 1924.Working as apprentice engraver in his uncle Romero Ongaro workshop, at the same time he attended the Venice Institute of Art. In 1948 he presented the "Mani artigiane" vase at the Venice Biennale.When his uncle died - 1949 - he carried on his activity and participated...

Active as a designer at the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro - Toso firm during the late 20s and early 30s, especially regarding lighting fixtures.

Born in Strasbourg in 1887, he died in Locarno in 1966 (some biographies incorrectly indicate Bale or Meudon). Painter, sculptor and poet, he discovered Modern Art during a stay in Paris. He associated with the greatest artists of the 20th century but he keeped to his own personal style.In 1954...

Pseudonym of Gaetana Emilia Aulenti (Palazzolo dello Stella, 4 December 1927 - Milan, 31 October 2012)She graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1953. From 1955 to 1963 she was editor of Casabella magazine. She worked mainly in the field of architecture and was responsible for important museum restorations...

Born in Milan in 1926. Graduated in architecture, he became a partner in the A.D.I. (Industrial Design Studio) and worked for Knoll international, Ferruzzi e Bozzi in Milan and Rochas in Paris. During his career he has worked for several Murano firms: with Venini & Co . From 1968 to...

At the end of the Second World War, after having spent his youth at the school of the great Born in 1912, he starts working in glass-making area while still very young and after a brief apprenticeship, first at the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso firm and later at the Anonima Vetrerie...

Born in Murano in 1940. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to master glass blower Ermanno Nason , at the firm Mazzega I.V.M. From 1958 to 1960 he attended the Institute of Fine Arts in Venice, where he studied under Professor Angelo Fuga . In the same period...

Born in Turin in 1882, died in Asolo (Treviso) in 1941.In 1918 He became designer for the firm Artisti Barovier . In 1922, in Colle Val d'Elsa (Siena), together with Franz Pelzel , he opened an artistic glassware laboratory that in 1925 got moved to Venice.In 1926 he became the...

The firm was founded in 1938 by Aureliano Toso, who right from the start was able to cooperate with the painter Dino Martens, whose qualities as a designer he had already appreciated. The first important experiments (just at research level) appeared at the XXIII Venice Biennale in 1942 with a...

Master Giuliano Ballarin was born in Murano on March 15, 1942 in a family whose tradition of glassmaking has been handed down from generation to generation since 1400. He approaches the world of glass at a very young age, revealing a strong learning ability supported by acute intelligence and lively...

Son of Alfredo Barbini , he was born in Murano in 1948. He studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice. In 1968 he joined his father's firm, and he still works there as a designer

Born in Murano on 13 May 1898 by Vincenzo Barbini and Anna Fuga, he descends from an ancient family of Murano glassmakers who, for more than five centuries, worked in the various sectors of the island's glass production, such as in the production of chandeliers, pearls and various objects, specializing,...

The glasswork, founded in 1878, went through various circumstances before taking the current name of Barovier & Toso in 1942.Owned by the Barovier family, together with more or less long-standing partners, under the leadership of Benvenuto and Giuseppe Barovier , it first took the name of Artisti Barovier producing glass...

Master glassblower at the Venini & C. firm. In 1928 he exhibited some of his objects at the XVI Venice Biennale.

Ercole's son, he was born in Venice in 1927. He studied laws at the Universities of Padua and Ferrara (Italy). In 1947 he started working at Barovier & Toso's and in 1951 he became a designer for the company; in 1975 he reached the director position, and later he became...

As a Master glassblower he worked for Andrea Rioda & Co . and for the Cappellin Venini & C. Firms. While working for this last firm, he exhibited his executions at the XIV Venice Biennale (1924).

Born in Murano in 1853 where he died in 1942. His career started with Antonio Salviati , his friend during the studying period. Still very young, he joined the C.V.M. Compagnia Venezia Murano , and when Antonio left, Giuseppe folowed him together with his uncle and his brothers, becoming owner...

Son of Benvenuto , he was born in Murano in 1889 where he died in 1974. In 1919 he joined as a partner the Vetreria Artistica Barovier & Co. , and in 1926 he gained the direction position together with his brother Nicolò . In 1936 he joined up with...

Ercole's son, he was born in Venice in 1950. He studied economics and business, joined Barovier & Toso's to take care of administration and became its general manager.

Born in Murano in 1895, where he died in 1947. The son of Benvenuto Barovier , Nicolò Barovier was both an entrepreneur and a designer. He and his brother, Ercole Barovier , joined the Vetreria Artistica Barovier & C. in 1919 as partners and glass designers. After 1926, they both...

Howard Ben Tré is internationally recognized for his unique sculptures and large-scale works of art for public and private spaces. Ben Tré is a pioneer in the use of cast glass as a sculptural medium and his work is included in more than 85 museum and public collections worldwide, among...

Born in Venice in 1882 where he died in 1940. He inherited his father's blacksmith's workshop and in 1910, together with the architect Cesare Laurenti, he was awared the patent for the connubio di ferro e vetro . He exhibited at the Venice Biennale of in 1914 and 1920. The...

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, jewelry and homes. He worked for Sasaki, Japan, Chase, David Rockefeller, Gianni Agnelli, Tiffany & Co., and Jann Wenner.In the...

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 Barovier company in 1883. He worked as a designer for the London World Fair glassworks from 1891...

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 worked as a freelance for several Murano furnaces such as A.V.E.M. in 1954, V.A.M.S.A. in 1956 and I.V.R. Mazzega...

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. citizenship to become decorator of the Opera Ballet. He has been living in Rome since...

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 , with whom he collaborated until the early 1970s.He also collaborated with the Swedish ceramist Tyra Lundgren, whom...

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 inclusion of coloured glass, millefiori, long stretches, cannette, etc. He improved the tecnique of coloured filigrana...

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 Switzerland from 1952 to 1960.He participated in the 1956 Venice Biennale and...

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 name and in the destiny.

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 established the Vetreria Artigiana Aldo Bon, also in the same period he worked for Fucina degli Angeli.He...

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 highlight the artist's complete freedom of action. His works play a central role in the history of contemporary art, as he opened...

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 , Giovanni Martelli and Paolo Venini ; together with them he established "Il labirinto", a movement to promote modern...

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 at the Novecento Italiano shows. He made fresco decoration for the Ambasciatori Hotel in Rome and...

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 "Scuola Romana". In 1933 and in 1936 he exhibited at the Triennale di Milano. His manner of...

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 made of metal wire to create clever animations. In 928 he got in touch with...

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 Angeli; for Fucina degli Angeli he designed some objects at the beginning of the...