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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...
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...
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...
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 & ...
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...
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...
Galliano Ferro opened the "Vetreria Artistica Galliano Ferro", his own glass factory, in 1955 after leaving Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVeM) which he co-founded in 1932. Designers at Galliano Ferr...
Born in 1943. Co-founder of Arte80 with Andrea Tagliapietra, Renato Anatrà was one of Murano's most prolific glass sculptors until his retiring in the early 2000s. His artworks, primarily consistin...
Gino Salmistrari was born in Mestre in 1927. He became a glass master when only 21 at Mazzega, creating glass artworks designed by Vigilio Guidi . Then at Seguso-Dalla Vene...
Born in Murano in 1967. I began my apprenticeship in various furnaces in 1975 During this period he had the opportunity to collaborate with maestro such as Scarpa, Berto Mattiello (G...
Giuliano Zennaro was born in Venice in 1967. He is descended from two of Murano's most famous families: the Baroviers and the Ferros. At 17 he began to work in the artisan studio of ...
Diego Bottacin was born in 1971 and graduated from the Liceo Artistico di Venezia. He had become familiar with glass working in 2002 and opened his own studio on the Island of Murano in 2003. D...
Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1961. BVA 1996, in sculpture, AUT, Auckland. She became a glass artist thanks to a visit to Italy in 2000. She notched and chiseled for a decade, re...
Born in Venice in 1965 and a resident of Murano, he specializes in artistic lampwork beads, in collaboration with Kristina Logan. He boasts ten years of teaching experience, principall...
Born on Murano in 1952, he is the first in his family to dedicate himself to glass arts. In fact, already as a youngster he started out as an assistant in the Murano glass factories, and after...
Simone Cenedese was born on Murano in 1973. Master and designer of art glass, with all the experiences of a dynasty of master glass workers of Murano, he pursued design out of personal interes...
Eagerly seeking a career that utilized my hands and was not in the typical office setting, I found myself at the Penland School of Crafts in 1996. My studies first began in the iron forge ...
Mosaicist born in Venice in 1962, he learned the art of glass decorating from his father. He has continued to study fine arts and the history of art at the State Institute of Art and a...