Companies

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.

In 1966 in an old kiln of Murano, a young boy set to work the glass and soon aimed at bringing his skills to perfection and his own creations to life. That boy, Gabriele Urban, after a forty-year experience in glass blowing, has been working on his own kiln since 1995.

IMuranesi is an artistic project born from the imagination of its creator Giampaolo Barbini.
At IMuranesi, the initial ideas of a product design are inspired by the simplicity of the objects and the lamps handmade by the Murano masters of the furnace, enriched with decorations applied whilst the glass matter is hot and still being processed.

The history of Murano glass boasts a very long list of techniques that have improved and evolved over the centuries.
One of the most recent techniques dates back to the 1930s and is the vetrofusione.