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Loud Listening - Through the Sound of Murano Glass
The voices of artists, noises of ovens, sounds of glass rods, shouting of masters whilst glass is transformed and comes to life: all the magical world of Muranese glass production sites will b...
How beautiful shapes come from a fascinating processing
Today we share with you this vintage video from the '80s. It is still interesting because the ancient Muranese techniques have remained unchanged over the centuries. The video shows the complexity ...
The Timelessness of Traditions: Murano Glass and Venetian Art Tourism
As millions of tourists flock to Italy each year to discover the heart of the Renaissance art world and the magnificent eras surrounding it, so do the passionate craftspeople and artists who a...
The gondola certainly is the best known Italian boat and one of the most famous in the world. The construction secrets of this icon of the Venetian Lagoon have been handed down from generation to...
We are very delighted and proud: MuranoNet and MuranoVitrum have been featured in the Japanes travel guidebook "co-Trip, lovely goods in Europe"! They have interviewed Gia...
Murano Glass Masters 2014 - L'Isola del Vetro
Saturday 12 th and Sunday 13 th July 2014 in Murano don't miss the first "Murano Glass Masters 2014 - The isle of Glass". The Murano Glass Museum - with the exhibit...
The writer Alberto Toso Fei, and artist Elena Tagliapietra, both from Venice, will give life - on April 25 th in St. Marco Square at 2pm - to the fifth edition of "Venice Revealed",...
The Scuola Abate Zanetti is sponsoring also this year the Murano Prize, a Venetian historic event that honors the art of Murano glass. The award, back in 2012 after a 21 years...
Have you ever wanted an aquarium, with lots of tropical fishes in your livingroom? Just to adorn a corner of the room, reproducing a small piece of nature on a fine piece of forniture. Well, ...
Mirrors are not only functional but also works of art thanks to their frames and decorations. They also make a room appear larger and brighter. They can even be used to create some fantastic piec...
Arte Vetraria Muranese (A.Ve.M) emerged from the liquidation of Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. In 1932 a group of master glassblowers decided to open a new glass factory, A.V.E.M. The f...
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...
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-...
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...
Franchetti, Raimondo (Vetreria Veneziana Barone Raimondo Franchetti) Murano, Venice, Italy (1826 - ? ) a.k.a. Cristalleria Franchetti. Mainly industrial glass, some cut & en...
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...
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...
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...