Companies
The firm “Peace of glass” was born in London in 2010, a project by the glass fusing artist and painter Roberta De Caro, born in Milan and of Apulian origins.
Although this is a relatively new project, it has already met with success and interest, so much so that the pieces of Peace of Glass are on sale in various shops in England and in the Metal and Stone art gallery in Cheltenham.
The Nicola Moretti Murano company was founded in 2013 by the brothers Alberto and Nicola Moretti.
Each furnace has its jealously guarded secrets.
In addition to the manufacturing processes, the companies also carefully store the recipes for composing the glass mixtures.
Founded in 1862 by the religious Vincenzo Zanetti, the Scuola Abate Zanetti is today the only official institute for learning Murano glass art.
Founded in the thirties by Vincenzo Nason, heir of one of the most ancient families of Murano, the glassworks has established itself in the period of greatest artistic splendor of the island with a brand that became well known in Italy and also abroad.
Glass Art Society is a non-profit, international organization.
The mission of GAS is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the appreciation and development of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass.
Berengo Studio was founded in 1989 by Adriano Berengo. Since its inception, its goal has been to introduce international contemporary artists to the world of glass so that they can work with master glassmakers to translate their art into the three-dimensional language of glass paste.
At the end of the Second World War, after having spent his youth at the school of the great Masters of that time, Gino Cenedese founded his glassworks in 1946 together with the great Masters Alfredo Barbini, Gino Fort, Angelo Tosi and Pietro Scaramal.
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.
The Vetreria Artistica DiPi glassworks has been founded in Murano in 1986 by Imperio Rossi, followed by Mario Costantini.