Nanna Backhaus Brown

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...

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Paolo Venini

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 V...

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Raffaele Rossi

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 ...

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Ermanno Toso

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 dir...

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Andrew Jason Brown

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 t...

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Giorgio Vigna

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 ...

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Franca Helg

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...

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James Carpenter

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...

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Franco Albini

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...

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Giacomo Barbini

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 t...

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Baldwin & Guggisberg

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 Swi...

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Bruno Amadi

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, g...

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Massimo Micheluzzi

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 ...

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Carlo Nason

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 i...

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Kyohei Fujita

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 gl...

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Franco Deboni

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...

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Massimo Nordio

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 m...

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Alessandro Mandruzzato

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...

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