Adriano Della Valentina
Adriano Dalla Valentina was born in Murano in 1945. Where he has lived and worked all his life. He has an open personality, always surrounded by friends although very shy with strangers. After the Second World War, most of the youth on Murano, were bound to work with family. The...
Rosanna Toso
(1941-2001), sister of Arnoldo, joined the Fratelli Toso in 1964 as a designer and became its artistic director in 1973. At the beginning of her career she followed the traditional style of manufacturing, drawing, for example, the murrina merletto. In the second phase of his activity, looking for new lines...
Andrea Zilio
He was born in Venice in 1966 and lives in Murano. He began his career as an artisan in the antique furniture restoration sector, but his great passion for glass led him in a short time to obtain the qualification of " Primo Maestro " in the Anfora glass factory,...
Laura de Santillana
Glassmaker Laura de Santillana lives and works on the Giudecca Island in Venice. She was born in Venice in 1955 into a glass dynasty; her grandfather Paolo Venini founded the Venini & C. company and her father ran it until there was a hostile takeover. The collaboration with Venini, born...
Albino Carrara
Master glassmaker in the 1950s at the Ferro & Lazzarini furnace who presented his glass objects at the XXXI Venice Biennale in 1962. He made several objects based on the designs of famous artists as part of the Centro Studi Pittori Arte del Vetro, later Fucina degli Angeli. He was...
Alessandro Barbaro
In the long Venetian tradition of glassmaking, the island of Murano has certainly a prominent role since it helped to preserve secrets, traditions, techniques of this charming art for centuries. It's in Murano that the Vetreria Artistica Colleoni glassworks has its headquarters where - along with the production - it...
Péter Borkovics
The glass sculptures of Peter Borkovics (born 1971) are consistent in their formal and technical analysis in which the artists enquires into the melting, flowing and sudden hardening qualities at a certain stage, in a given form. "Glass is an unpredictable material, and my primary interest is in its manipulation...
Giorgio Barera
Trainied as a graphic designer, he came into contact with the Murano glassmaking tradition, creating chandeliers and objects, at Formia International . He collaborates with Mee Murano 041 and with Bog Arquitectes, Barcelona. With Mosè La Cava he founded Nerodisegno to create furnishings and accessories together with Italian artisans and...
Michael Reza Foroutan
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Voltolina
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. Using their experience to find the perfect raw materials and introducing new innovative technologies, they have led the company to be among...
Giuseppe Lorenzo Briati
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, Briati moved to Bohemia where he learned the secrets of the crystal. Back in Venice, in 1737,...
Gianni Toso
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 that history have belonged to Maestro Gianni Toso. "I had a hard time with regular school. They tried to teach...
Adriano Berengo
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 obtained in New York. where within a few years he reinvented himself as a publisher of glass works....
Elio Quarisa
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 family. Elio became a maestro (master) at the reknown glass company; but after 27 years, moved...
Rosa Barovier Menasti
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 glass. Since then he has devoted himself to the study of the history of ancient and modern Venetian glass. She’s...
Martin Janecký
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 2003 Martin made his first trip to the United States. Working for other artists he was able...
Eduino Ferro
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 the Ferro & C. glassworks but his untimely death marked its closure.
Flavio Poli
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 - and designed figures, to be made of solid glass. Poli was the first to tackle, in Murano, the theme...
Vincenzo Zanetti (Abate)
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 through a deep crisis. Vincenzo Zanetti dedicated his life to the study of the past, to discover the...
Thomas Apa
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 to the a lume glass technique. From that moment a passion began that has...
Reno Bardella
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 perfected himself in the technique of blowing and solid wood and became a master at Ferro & Lazzarini . For his instinctive manual...
Enzo Scarpa
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 resposable for the revival of historical designs with a modern twist ans of glass scupltures that would succesfully characterise the Pauly...
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 frequency in documents starting from 1424, the year in which, probably still at the beginning of his career,...
Leopold Blaschka
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 invertebrate marine creatures, truly unrepeatable glass works of art present in many European and...
Elio Raffaeli
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 Salviati where he learned techniques ranging from blown to sculptures to solid glass. After a fruitful collaboration with the designer Flavio...
Giovanni Luca Ferreri
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 Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (XV ciclo) with a thesis entitled: "Construction of an imagined city",...
Antonio Colleoni
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 three years; from 1867-1869, he was then reconfirmed Mayor 8 times. From the words of Angelo...
Francesco Ragazzi
Born in Murano in 1965 from a historic family of glassmakers. In 1981 he began his apprenticeship at the Ferro & Lazzarini glassworks. Over time he collaborates with several excellences of master glassmakers such as: Alberto Striulli, Gino Salmistrari , Giuliano Tosi , Oscar Zanetti , Reno Bardella and Gianni...
Benjamin Lintell
Born in Plymouth, UK, 1995 Benjamin Lintell is a full-time artist and glass blower who creates glass artwork in South West England. He has been working with glass for 5 years, earning a BA in Contemporary Craft from Plymouth College of Art, graduating in 2017. He has collaborated with numerous...
Theo Brooks
Brooks is a glass maker from South London, UK and graduate from UCA, Farnham, UK, apprenticed in hot glass with maestro Simon Moore, and in glass cutting with Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg . Currently he is working towards his MFA at Bowling Green State University, USA. Brooks has work...
Carlo Scanferlato
Product designer. Born in Venice, Italy, 1994. He is a multidisciplinary designer, recently awarded a MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art, with a background in Interior Design and Fine Arts, and a particular interest in craft practices. His recent work is focused on technological products and...
Tristano di Robilant
Born in 1964, lives and works in Ripabianca in Umbria and London. Well known for his ceramic and glass sculptures, he works with a variety of mediums, including drawing, photography and writing. His work is in private and public collections in Europe and the United States, including the Sol LeWitt...
Yoichi Ohira
Japanese born Yoichi Ohira has been living and working in Venice since 1973. His distinctive vessels are a blend of Japanese aesthetics and traditional Italian glass techniques. Ohira notes, "I would like to create work using my Japanese sensibility that is always a true reflection of the history of Venetian...
Sylvain Larrière
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France, 1962 One constant feature of Sylvain Larrière’s sculpture is that they open, thus developing another dimension in space and unveiling a universe until now hidden from the eyes. Having much worked in metal, he has for some years recently experiences the use of glass in different forms: magnifying...
Martin Blank
August 29, 1962 -Sharon, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti American glass artist. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984 with a BFA with a major in glass. He was a pupil of Dale Chihuly and from the 90s he worked independently. Blank has taught at the Pilchuck Glass...
Davide Fuin
Born in Venice, Murano in 1962 Davide Fuin is a master of Murano glass, his skills include a wide spectrum of techniques such as reticello and filigree zanfirico , incalmo and avventurina . Considered one of the most skilled masters of the last 30 years, he has collaborated with famous...
Juliette Leperlier
To Juliette Leperlier pâte de verre is a family heritage. Her great grandfather François Décorchemont designed the technique, and then her father Etienne Leperlier and her uncle Antoine continued the research. Juliette had all the cards at hand to carry on, but she wanted to study other techniques first, so...
Morten Klitgaard
Morten Klitgaard’s abstract, sculptural forms appear weather beaten, organic and patinated due to the use of oxides upon the surface which cause a reaction to occur with metallic pigments to give a sense of depth and pattern to each and every piece. Morten klitgaard was born in Lønstrup, Denmark in...
Alberto Donà
Alberto Donà was born in Italy in 1944. He began working in the glass field at the age of 13. He worked with many masters and had the opportunity to work abroad, in Venezuela. His foremost influence was the maestro "Nane" Ferro , who was known in Murano during the...
Roberta De Caro
“My investigation starts with materials and objects that spark interest for their formal qualities and their potential in conveying meaning. I often make use of familiar items that are at once collectively recognisable and of personal resonance, existing in everyday life or as childhood memories. Transformed into physical metaphors, these...
François Décorchemont
François Décorchemont comes from a family of artists: his father, Louis-Émile Décorchemont (1851-1921), born in Saint-Pierre d'Autils, was a sculptor. After studying at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, he made many glass paste objects that brought him to fame. The glass paste technique was developed in the...
Martin Bradley
Martin Bradley was born in 1931 in Richmond, Surrey in England. Since childhood he has shown great interest in art. Bradley drops out of school and, at the age of fourteen, embarks as a cabin boy where he begins painting portraits of his companions aboard the ship. Three years later...
Mauro Bonaventura
He was born in Venice in 1965. At 18 he graduated in electronics. In his search for a job, fate and providence gave him the opportunity to become an apprentice in the ancient tradition of Venetian glass blowing.From the beginning he fell in love and was mesmerized by the incandescent...
Vittorio Costantini
Vittorio Costantini was born in Burano, an island near Murano, in 1944. The son of a fisherman and a lace maker he began working in the glass factory at the age of 11. At the age of 19 he approaches the technique of lighting, a pastime that soon turns into...
Erwin Walter Burger
Work nourished by emotion and imagination likewise triumphed over formal theory among a few glass designers active in Milan itself. Erwin Burger, the cutter and engraver long employed by Fontana Arte, quit the firm in 1945 and went to work his own. Founded Upon what he had produced in the...
Nanna Backhaus Brown
Danish glass artist Nanna Backhaus Brown began her training as a glass artist in Arresø Glashytte in North Zealand, Denmark. After qualification, she moved to France and worked at L'Atelier du Verre, St. Meloir in France, where she started as a production assistant and eventually became a partner. It was...
Paolo Venini
Born in Milan in 1895, he died in Venice in 1959. Entrepreneur and designer, a law school graduate, from 1921 through the year of his death, he dedicated himself to the glasshouse he founded, the Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Venini & C. (through 1925, Vetri Soffiati Muranesi Cappellin Venini &C.). A...
Raffaele Rossi
Born in Alba (CN) on May 20, 1956. In 1975, after the artistic high school in Novara, fascinated by ancient Venetian painting, he stayed for a few years in Mogliano Veneto in the Treviso area where he held his first personal exhibition in 1978. In this period, he follows the...
Ermanno Toso
Ermanno Toso (Murano 1903-1973) began to work at the Fratelli Toso workshop in 1924, where he was later to become a partner. In 1936, he was named artistic and marketing director of the company. During the period preceding World War II, he created thick glass pieces using traditional decorative techniques...
Andrew Jason Brown
British glass artist Andrew Brown studied art and design in Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK) before completing his degree in 3D Glass Design from the University of Wolverhampton. Then he went on to study at Stourbridge International Glass School. In 1993, Andrew joined forces with Nanna Backhaus in Kregme, North Zealand, and in...
Giorgio Vigna
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,...
Franca Helg
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...
James Carpenter
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
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....
Giacomo Barbini
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...
Baldwin & Guggisberg
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...
Bruno Amadi
For 4 decades, with extraordinary skill, Bruno Amadi has been modeling wonderful natural forms by a lume in his shop in Venice. Starfish, anchovies, green lizards, frogs, butterflies, mushrooms, green beans, peas, hollies, snails, very light spiders, dragonflies, and ants are born from colored glass rods ... Born in Burano, Amadi moved...
Massimo Micheluzzi
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...
Carlo Nason
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
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...
Franco Deboni
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....
Massimo Nordio
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
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
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...
Cristina Sfriso
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
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,...
Maurizio Alfier
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...
Gabriella Nanni
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Vittorio Ferro
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...
Fulvio Bianconi
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....