Davide Salvadore

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 170...

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Vittorio Ferro

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 filigra...

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Fulvio Bianconi

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 1...

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Mauro Vianello

Mauro Vianello

Mauro Vianello began his work on glass in one of the most renowned Murano glass factories when he was very young. His dear friend Vanni (skillful maker of lighting glass items) taught him the techn...

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Dino Martens

Dino Martens

Corrado Martens, known as Dino, was born in Venice in 1894 where he died in 1970. Studies at the Accademia Delle Belle Arti di Venezia. Moves to Murano in the middle ‘20s to become a collaborator ...

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Antonio Vaccari s.r.l.

Antonio Vaccari s.r.l.

The Vaccari have been active in the production and sale of Venetian pearls since the nineteenth century. The founder Augusto Vaccari exported lampworked glass to the French and English co...

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Valter Rossi

Valter Rossi

"Glass, this magical material that pushes me every day to improve myself to reach a perfection that I will never reach." "The master glassmaker cannot go back: his sign remains indomit...

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Andrea Tagliapietra

Andrea Tagliapietra

Simple and sophisticated, with a contemporary design rooted in the ancient art of Murano glassmaking, Andrea Tagliapietra's glass sculptures are a unique emotion. Considered one of Murano's most ta...

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Pino Signoretto

Pino Signoretto

Pino Signoretto is recognised as the most prominent glass artist and sculptor not only in Murano but also in the world . What seemed and was impossible to achieve for anyone else, Pino has done,d...

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Manaretta or Maneretta

This is a comb-like tool used to obtain surface decorations such as that of a piume (feather) or Fenicio glass.

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Levada

This is the action of taking molten glass from the crucible with the canna da soffio  (blowpipe).

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Regata Storica

Regata Storica

Every year the Regata Storica takes place in the Canal Grande the first Sunday of September. The historical regatta takes place primarily along the Grand Canal and is one of t...

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A reborn Museum in Murano

A reborn Museum in Murano

Spaces and exhibition offer doubled, now also temporary exhibitions available The project involved both the historic halls of Palazzo Giustinian (where the Muse...

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Enameling on Murano glass

A domain peculiar to Murano is decoration with enameling: of Bizantine origines, developed in Murano during the 13th Century, it then bloomed in the early Renaissance. See how the renowe...

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Murano in space

Murano in space

As you probably know, the Italian astronaut Captain Samantha Cristoforetti is participating in a mission on the International Space Station. On 28 th January she took a wonderful ph...

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MuranoNet on TK Magazine

MuranoNet on TK Magazine

e are so proud to have collaborated with the gorgeous TK - Tasting Kitchen magazine based in Hong Kong! Read the interview to the maestro Igor Balbi by Jessie Tirsch and see some beautif...

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Bruno Bischofberger's Art Collection

Bruno Bischofberger's Art Collection

Finnish Glass Art Collection of Bruno Bischofberger: An Exhibition in Venice In the summer of 2015, Venice hosted a remarkable exhibition showcasing the Finnish glass art collection curated by the ...

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Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel

Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel

Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel The palace was erected between 1473 and 1479 for Nicolò Soranzo with material recovered from an ancient palace of the Gradeni...

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