Francesco Zecchin

Born in Murano in 1894, he died there in 1986. He studied engineering at the University of Padua. In 1925 he became a partner of Venini & C., and later left it together with Napoleone Martinuzz...

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Toni Zuccheri

Toni Zuccheri

Born in San Vito al Tagliamento (Udine) in 1936, his father was the painter Luigi Zuccheri, his mother Jolanda was the sister of the poet and philosopher Giacomo Noventa.In 1945 the family moved ...

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Licio Zuffi

Master glassblower at F.lli Toso's, he died in 1973. In 1964, at the XXII Venice Biennale and in 1966, at the XXXIII, he exhibited the glasses executed by him on the design of Renato Toso. In ...

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Mariano Moro

Moro Mariano was born in Venice the 27th of september 1957 on the small island of Burano, Venice. At a very young age (13 years old) he began working with glass at the renowned Cristalleria Santi f...

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Mary-Ann Zynsky Toots

Mary-Ann Zynsky Toots

Born in Boston (U.S.A.) in 1951, she lives in Paris. She was born Mary Ann, but was called Toots almost from birth. She earned her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, then went to Seattl...

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Mirco Bastianello

Mirco Bastianello

Mrco was born in 1975, son of a Maestro Vetraio. He started working at the age of 15, not in a forge but "a lume", reproducing any kind of objects. His love for glass was so big that,...

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Stringhetti Laura

Stringhetti Laura

After graduation from Art School, Laura Stringhetti attended the International School of graphic design. Student of Licata, Kramer, Teardo, Gadioli with whom she still works today. In her small ate...

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Giovanni Moretti

Giovanni Moretti

Born in 1940 in Murano, he lived in Venice with his wife Maria Roberta Rinaldi until his premature death in 2014. After completing his commercial studies, he joined his brother Carlo in ...

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Oscar Zanetti (Jr)

Oscar Zanetti (Jr)

Oscar Zanetti, son of Licio and grandson of Oscar Snr, started working at the Zanetti Vetreria Artistica - founded in 1956 by his grandfather - very young, at the beginning of the 80's. ...

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Shelley James

Shelley James

Shelley James, after training in textiles at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, has pursued a career in corporate design for international clients such as Visa Intern...

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MuranoNet meets Igor Balbi

MuranoNet meets Igor Balbi

It’s a sunny Friday of early May. The climate is ideal for sightseeing and discover Venice and its hidden corners, as are doing thousands of tourists arrived from all over the world. We, i...

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Timo Sarpaneva

Timo Sarpaneva

Designer and sculptor Timo Sarpaneva (1926-2006) was an internationally known Finnish designer. Glass artist, designer in clay, metal fiber, and wood, and visionary Sarpaneva has worked in glass fo...

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Moulaye Niang

Moulaye Niang

Moulaye Niang arrived in Venice about 10 years ago from Senegal. First he started as a musician and painter but soon after he met glass and was utterly fascinated by it. The next consequ...

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Carlo Tosi - Caramea

Carlo Tosi - Caramea

Carlo Tosi the master of mouth-blown glass. Also known as Caramea , (candy in Venetian dialect) - was born in 1929 in Murano. He started as an apprentice at the early age of 9 at Nason Glasswork...

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Licio Falcier

Licio Falcier was born in Murano in 1922. At a very young age, he began working at the Morassi glassworks in 1933, while completing his school studies. In 1935 he moved to Nason & ...

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Giovanni "Nane Catari" Ferro

Giovanni Ferro, known also by his surname "Nane Catari", was born in 1911 from a dynasty of master glassmakers. He began his apprenticeship at the age of eight, in the furnace of Ferro and Toso, S...

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Mario "Grasso" Tosi

Mario "Grasso" Tosi

He was born in 1924 in Milan. Known as Grasso (translated: "fat"). Mario Tosi started working from a very young age at the Conterie before arriving at the famous Venini glassworks in 1937 where h...

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Galliano Ferro

Galliano Ferro

Galliano Ferro opened the "Vetreria Artistica Galliano Ferro", his own glass factory, in 1955 after leaving Arte Vetraria Muranese (A.Ve.M) which he co-founded in 1932. Designers at Galliano Fe...

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