Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955. He received his artistic training between his hometown, Venice, Rome, and Milan, where he currently lives and works. An artist operating at the boundary between reality and imagination, Vigna explores the line between what is and what appears to be. His works,...

Born in Milan on February 21, 1920. In 1945 you graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano. In 1951 you began your career with Franco Albini, then in 1962 with Antonio Piva, and since 1965 you have dedicated yourself to design with Marco Albini. She was...

Born in Washington DC in 1949, James Carpenter graduated in 1972 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. After his first collaboration at Venini, from October 1971 to May 1972, Carpenter returned several times to participate in the design of various glassworks. During this time,...

Franco Albini was born in 1905 in Robbiate (Como). He graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1929. The following year he opened his own architecture studio, focusing on product and exhibition design, becoming one of the most significant designers in the world in this field during his career....

He was born in Murano in 1951 into a family of glass masters and dedicated himself to goldsmithing in the years of his early youth. He was hired in 1967, for a collaboration that will last about thirty years, at the Venini glassworks where he comes into contact and collaborates...

Philip Baldwin 1947, New York Monica Guggisberg 1955, Bern Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin have been working together since 1980. For 20 years their studio was based in Switzerland, then in 2001 they moved to Paris. Then, starting in 2015 they moved to rural Wales, overlooking the hills; third act...

For 4 decades, with extraordinary skill, Bruno Amadi has been modeling wonderful natural forms by lamp in his shop in Venice. Starfish, anchovies, lattarini, green lizards, frogs, butterflies, mushrooms, green beans, peas, hollies, snails, very light spiders, dragonflies and ants are born from the colored glass rods ... Born in...

Massimo Micheluzzi was born in Venice on June 20, 1957, he studied History of Art at the University of Ca 'Foscari. Then for many years he worked in the family antiques gallery. The first contact with the world of glass was born by attending from a very young age the...

Born in Murano in 1935, Nason comes from one of the oldest families of glassmakers on the island. He grew up attending the glass masters who work in the family furnace and immediately sensed and investigated the great potential of glass, a material steeped in history and memory. Carlo Nason...

Kyohei Fujita (藤田 喬 平 Fujita Kyōhei, 1921 - September 18, 2004) was a Japanese glass artist. The name Koyhei Fujita is synonymous with "Liuli box" - and not just a box. He is best known for his glass boxes with intricate surface decorations. His work has been included in...

Born in Trieste in 1950, he graduated in Architecture in Venice, under the guidance of Carlo Scarpa . He curated the exhibition "Vetro Italiano 1920-1940" for the municipality of Turin. In 1984 he was appointed chief consultant for the exhibition "The Venetians" held in the Karasik Gallery in New York....

Born in Venice in 1947. He trained as a cinematographer and photographer, he is a long-time collector of 20th century Venetian glass. In 1980 he wrote a series of monographs on the major modern Murano glass artists, such as Carlo Scarpa , Napoleone Martinuzzi , Ercole Barovier , Fulvio Bianconi...

Alessandro Mandruzzato is a Murano glass maestro specialised in the shaping and incision of cold glass. Vases, ashtrays, bottles: every product is handmade in Murano, following the traditional glass making techniques. He has began working with glass in 1985, at the age of 15. Learning from his father, he's developed...

Cesare Sent was born in Murano, where he is still living and working. After acquiring the mastery of the Muranese techniques passed down to him from both his grandfathers, both having been well known glass masters, he focused his interest in fusing, lamp-working and kiln casting, adding a touch of...

Born and Raised in Murano and being daily in contact with the glass of Murano enough evidence to bring Cristina towards its destiny: a glass artisan. The daily work is to transform every idea into a glass object. The collectors and artists who collaborate with Cristina are people from all...

Cristiano Balbi was born in Murano in 1956. Following his father's footsteps, he has entered the world of glass making when he was only 9 as helper in the furnace owned by his family. Gradually he started to cover all the stages according to the ancient Murano glassmaking traditions: ragazzo,...

MuranoNet meets the artists Today we would like to introduce Maurizio Alfier, a very talented Murano glass artist. It’s a sunny afternoon as we travel towards his atelier in the Venetian mainland and we are quite excited to meet the maestro. When we arrive, Mr Alfier welcomes us in his...

You already know Gabriella Nanni for her jewels with Murano glass containing gold and platinum leaves that create incredible light effects. It has been a huge success thanks to their personality and quality .   The jewellery Gabriella Nanni has designed with passion in her thirty-year career has always had...

Fabio Tagliapietra was born in Venice on 07th Nov 1978. He comes from a dynasty of glass maestros. He started his career at the age of 14 with his father Andrea at the Vetreria Arte 80 in 1992. He had his first collective exhibitions in 1999 at the “Bevilacqua La...

  Romano Donà, born in Murano in 1956, comes from a long line of glassmaking experts. He started his apprenticeship with his father at the Fratelli Manfren Glassworks at a young age, learning the art of glassmaking.He collaborated with Livio Seguso starting in 1975 and worked with other artists such as...

Diego Costantini was born in Burano in the 70s. He is the son of artists: his father and uncle worked in a furnace and Diego, even at a young age, followed the passion of his family. He put his love for the sea and his creatures in his work, becoming...

Dario Frare was born in 1977 in Murano and has inherited his passion for drawing and glassmaking techniques from his father Giuliano, also a well known Master, his first collaborator. Dario started working with glass when still a child; this passion would become later his specialty at the Institute of...

Manuela Milan was born in Venice in 1964. Her passion for glass comes from far: since her childhood she has attended the workshop of a glass master who's a family friend - Marco Fasolato - who later has followed her in the path of learning and experimenting with Murano glass,...

Dimitri Cimarosto is considered one of the greatest artists of the “ a lume ” technique. Dimitri learned the ancient technique of glass blowing from his father Mario, who had been an assistant of the great master Alfredo Barbini , first and then of Livio Seguso . Dimitri had the...

Davide Salvadore - Mattia and Marco's father (see Studio Salvadore) - was born in a family of glassworkers. The ancestors on the part of Davide Salvadore's mother have been creating glass since 1700. The first of this lineage were the Fratelli Rossetto whose works date back to 1721 for a...

Born in 1932 Master glassmaker at F.lli Toso . His extraordinary ability allowed him to deal with all the techniques of working in the furnace, from delicate filigrana to massello , but his favorite technique was the murrina Ferro was a true primo maestro (first master), a rare representative of...

Born in Padova in 1915 and died in Milan in 1996. He met Paolo Venini in 1948 and started a job relationship that had lasted form more than forty years.In 1958 he also worked for Cenedese's, in 1963 for Vistosi's and in 1966, occasionally, for the Galliano Ferro glass factory....

Mauro Vianello began his work on glass in one of the most renowned Murano glass factories when he was very young. His dear friend Vanni (skillful maker of lighting glass items) taught him the techniques of handcrafting which allowed him to explore his creativity. After having learnt about a peculiar...

Corrado Martens, known as Dino, was born in Venice in 1894 where he died in 1970. Studies at the Accademia Delle Belle Arti di Venezia. Moves to Murano in the middle ‘20s to become a collaborator and partner at the S.A.L.I.R. As a painter he exhibits at the Biennale from...

The Vaccari have been active in the production and sale of Venetian pearls since the nineteenth century. The founder Augusto Vaccari exported lampworked glass to the French and English colonies and was the first to make his creations inspired by the golden age of Byzantium famous, even beyond Venice: shiny...

"Glass, this magical material that pushes me every day to improve myself to reach a perfection that I will never reach." "The master glassmaker cannot go back: his sign remains indomitable, he is not allowed to make mistakes " island in the Venice lagoon. Valter was born on January 26,...

Simple and sophisticated, with a contemporary design rooted in the ancient art of Murano glassmaking, Andrea Tagliapietra's glass sculptures are a unique emotion. Considered one of Murano's most talented glass masters, Andrea Tagliapietra is known by glass art collectors around the world for being, along with very few other glass...

Pino Signoretto is recognised as the most prominent glass artist and sculptor not only in Murano but also in the world . What seemed and was impossible to achieve for anyone else, Pino has done,demonstrating his skills and strength in manipulating glass that he calls “ the unrivalled master of...

Cragg ⟨kräġ⟩, Tony (owner Anthony). British sculptor (b.Liverpool 1949). After working as a technician in a biochemistry laboratory (1966-68), Cragg began his artistic training, which ended at the Royal college of art in London (1973-77). After moving to Germany, from 1978 he taught at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (from 1988...

Born in 1858 Died in 1897. Master glassblower at Francesco e Figlio's firm (at present Barovier & Toso), he was celebrated by Gabriele D'Annunzio in the novel "Il fuoco", published in 1900. He is the cousin of the equally famous Giovanni Seguso, known as Nane Patare.

Designer of engraved glass, he was active at S.A.L.I.R.'s from the late 30s to the 50's. At the 1940 Venice Biennale he exhibited his bottles with decorations in pontiano style.