C.V.M. - Compagnia Venezia Murano

C.V.M. - Compagnia Venezia Murano

The company was founded in 1877 and is mainly concerned with the sale not only of glasswares but also of furniture, bronzes, marbles ad luxury items in general. It has imported from the most Europ...

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Auguste Daum portrait

Frères Daum

Very well known as the frères Daum glass factory, this firm has been recently renamed Cristalleries de Nancy. It was established in Nancy in 1875 by Jean Daum. His sons Jean Louis Auguste and Jean-...

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Fratelli Toso

Fratelli Toso

One of the oldest glass factories on the island, already open in 1854, the firm was mostly typical at first for its production of classic blown glass and, in the early years of 20th century, for va...

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Vetreria Franchetti

Vetreria Franchetti

Franchetti, Raimondo (Vetreria Veneziana Barone Raimondo Franchetti) Murano, Venice, Italy (1826 - ? ) a.k.a. Cristalleria Franchetti. Mainly industrial glass, some cut & en...

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Fucina degli Angeli

Fucina degli Angeli

This began as an artist's cooperative in 1950, Centro Studi Pittori Arte del Vetro, set up by Egidio Costantini, Fioravante Seibezzi, Armando Tonello, Gino Krayer, Mario Carraro, Aldo Bergam...

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I.V.A.M.

I.V.A.M.

Founded in the early 20s at Fondamenta Navagero by Libero Vitali , the glass factory had a short but intense life, from both a technical and an artistical viewpoint, for the influence that its pr...

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I.V.R. Mazzega

I.V.R. Mazzega

The exact starting date of the glasswork cannot be established. According to Esperia Mazzega. Daughter of Romano, it goes back to the early 30s. In 1937 Romano sold the firm to Aureliano Toso and t...

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Loetz

Loetz

Glassworks that has established in 1836 at Klostermeuhle in Bohemia, by Eisensteine. In 1840 Johann Loetz purchased it, and when he died, his wife Suzanne took over. In 1870 his grandson, mAx ...

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M.V.M. Cappellin & Co.

M.V.M. Cappellin & Co.

Whats on in Venice? Not only Biennale is a reference of artworks in Venice

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Ceramiche Lenci

Ceramics factory established in 1928 by Elena Scavini and her husband, in charge of the artistic direction to this day. Production has strictly modern taste. Over the years they have reached a...

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Pauly & Co.

Pauly & Co.

We often get contacted for news of this glorious ateler. Unfortunately the company after being renamed Miva Srl went bankrupt on 26 April 2016.Since its foundation (1866), Pauly & C. has stood ...

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Orrefors Glasbruk

Swedish glassworks specialized in the manufacture of cheap glasswares. Founded in 1898, it was acquired in 1913 by Johan Ekman who improved the quality of production thamks to the cooperation ...

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Primavera Firm

This firm operated during the 20s in the field of interior design.In 1929 it did the furnishings for the Sambuco shop; this shop that was opened in Turin from the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso firm.

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S.A.L.I.R. - Studio Ars Labor Industrie Riunite

S.A.L.I.R. - Studio Ars Labor Industrie Riunite

Founded in 1923 by Giuseppe D'Alpaos , Decio Toso and Guglielmo Barbini . Its specialities were glass engraving, sandblasting, enamel and engraving application...

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S.A.I.A.R. Ferro-Toso & Co

S.A.I.A.R. Ferro-Toso & Co

The firm started in 1895 and produced the first known objects having a "modern" taste, a series of murrine vases, executed on the design of the Swedish artist Anna Akerdhal, wife of the graphic art...

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Salviati & Co.

Salviati & Co.

In 1866 Antonio Salviati, a lawyer from Vicenza (Italy), in cooperation with some English financing partners, constituted the Vetreria Salviati & Co. The firm took the english name of The Venic...

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Seguso Vetri d'Arte

Seguso Vetri d'Arte

In 1933 a group of master glassblowers who had left the Barovier & Co . firm decided to open its own glass factory, making the begnnings of the Artistica Soffieria e Vetreria Barovier Seguso ...

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V.A.M.S.A.

The V.A.M.S.A. firm Vetreria Artistica Muranese Societa' Anonima founded in 1925 by Augusto Hreglivh under the name of S.A.V.A.M. Societa' anonima Vetri Artistici Murano, produced blown glass ...

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