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Silvano Signoretto began to train at the age of eight, in the furnace of the unforgettable glass master Alfredo Barbini . Having acquired the foundations of the glassmaking he ...
Born in Philadelphia (U.S.A.) in 1936. He graduated at Cranbrook Academy of Art and in 1959 came to Italy. Here, with the cooperation of the maestro Checco Ongaro, he designed for Venini & C...
Born in Venice in 1906, where he died 1974. Self - taught, he presented his works at the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa collectives exhibitions starting from 1925. After having participated in several Ve...
Born in Innsbruck (Austria) in 1917, he studied in Turin and graduated in architecture. In 1958 he started working for the Olivetti corporation. In 1981 he was one of the founders of the Memphis br...
Master glassblowers at Aureliano Toso's during the 50's, he made several items desgned by the painter Dino Martens.
Born in Murano in 1934, he bred in the “closed shop” environment of Venetian glass fraternity on Murano, learned the complex language of glass making as a matter of course from an early age. During...
Born in New York in 1848, he died there in 1933. Son of the famous jeweler Charles, he studied painting in New York in 1866 and traveled to Paris in 1869, where he was acquainted with Siegfried B...
Born in Bolzano (Italy) in 1952, he studied sculpture in Salzburg (Austria) at the Akademie Oskar Kokoschka, and in 1975 he was awarded his ph.d. in architecture at the University of Florence in co...
Born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1958 After studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and Aix en Provence, he obtained the National Diploma of Plastic Expression in 1986. Invited b...
While working for the firm of Venini & Co. in 1955, he designed glassware with a marked stylization based on a modern use of traditional techniques with essential forms and decorations wit...
Born in Centerville (Wisconsin, U.S.A.) in 1890, died in Basel (Switzerland) in 1976.He received little formal training in art aside from a few classes at the Art Institute of Chicago.He worked for...
Master glassblower for Venini & Co., he exhibited his works in 1928 at the XVI Venice Biennale.
Cesare Toffolo is an established glass master in Murano, specialized in lamp-blowing glass.His style in the creation of miniatures of goblets chandeliers with the technique of the lampwork is unsur...
Born in Ceneda, now Vittorio Veneto (Tv, Italy) in 1897. Painter known because of his landscapes of the area round Asolo, in the early 50's he was part of the group of artists who, together with Eg...
Master Giuliano Tosi, born in 1942, hails from a lineage steeped in glassmaking tradition dating back to 1483. His journey with glass began at the tender age of 12, under the tutelage of Master Alb...
Master glassblower, and partner of Cenedese's. In 1963 he executed a group of four glasswares: "Il volo: momenti", designed by Antonio Da Ros, exhibited the same year at the Murano Glass Show....
Engraver in the Vetreria Franchetti, in 1923 he was one of the founding partners of S.A.L.I.R. firm. He retired in 1976 and handed over the management to his son Gigi.
Born in Murano in 1884, where he died in 1979. He started working for the F.lli Toso firm, in 1932 he moves to Succ. Andrea Rioda, and in 1938 he opened his own furnace Vetreria Aureliano Toso .