Jean Arp

Jean Arp

Born in Strasbourg in 1887, he died in Locarno in 1966 (some biographies incorrectly indicate Bale or Meudon). Painter, sculptor and poet, he discovered Modern Art during a stay in Paris. He associ...

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Gae Aulenti

Gae Aulenti

Pseudonym of Gaetana Emilia Aulenti (Palazzolo dello Stella, 4 December 1927 - Milan, 31 October 2012)She graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1953. From 1955 to 1963 she was edit...

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Sergio Asti

Sergio Asti

Born in Milan in 1926. Graduated in architecture, he became a partner in the A.D.I. (Industrial Design Studio) and worked for Knoll international, Ferruzzi e Bozzi in Milan and Rochas in Paris. Du...

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Alfredo Barbini

Alfredo Barbini

At the end of the Second World War, after having spent his youth at the school of the great Born in 1912, he starts working in glass-making area while still very young and after a brief apprentices...

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Mario Badioli

Mario Badioli

Born in Murano in 1940. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to master glass blower Ermanno Nason , at the firm Mazzega I.V.M. From 1958 to 1960 he attended the Institut...

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Guido Maria Balsamo Stella

Guido Maria Balsamo Stella

Born in Turin in 1882, died in Asolo (Treviso) in 1941.In 1918 He became designer for the firm Artisti Barovier . In 1922, in Colle Val d'Elsa (Siena), together with Franz Pelzel , he opened an...

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Vetreria Aureliano Toso

Vetreria Aureliano Toso

The firm was founded in 1938 by Aureliano Toso, who right from the start was able to cooperate with the painter Dino Martens, whose qualities as a designer he had already appreciated. The first imp...

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Giuliano Ballarin

Giuliano Ballarin

Master Giuliano Ballarin was born in Murano on March 15, 1942 in a family whose tradition of glassmaking has been handed down from generation to generation since 1400. He approaches the w...

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Flavio Barbini

Flavio Barbini

Son of Alfredo Barbini , he was born in Murano in 1948. He studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice. In 1968 he joined his father's firm, and he still works there as ...

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Guglielmo Barbini Portrait Murano History of Glass

Guglielmo Barbini

Born in Murano on 13 May 1898 to Vincenzo Barbini and Anna Fuga, he descends from an ancient family of Murano glassmakers who, for more than five centuries, worked in the various sectors of the isl...

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Dedoli Barovier

Master glassblower at the Venini & C. firm. In 1928 he exhibited some of his objects at the XVI Venice Biennale.

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Angelo Barovier (1927)

Angelo Barovier (1927)

Ercole's son, he was born in Venice in 1927. He studied laws at the Universities of Padua and Ferrara (Italy). In 1947 he started working at Barovier & Toso's and in 1951 he became a desig...

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Diego Barovier

As a Master glassblower he worked for Andrea Rioda & Co . and for the Cappellin Venini & C. Firms. While working for this last firm, he exhibited his executions a...

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Giuseppe Barovier

Giuseppe Barovier

Born in Murano in 1853 where he died in 1942. His career started with Antonio Salviati , his friend during the studying period. Still very young, he joined the C.V.M. Compagni...

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Ercole Barovier

Ercole Barovier

Son of Benvenuto, he was born in Murano in 1889 where he died in 1974. In 1919 he joined as a partner the Vetreria Artistica Barovier & Co., and in 1926 he gained the direction position toget...

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Jacopo Barovier

Jacopo Barovier

Ercole's son, he was born in Venice in 1950. He studied economics and business, joined Barovier & Toso's to take care of administration and became its general manager.

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Nicolò Barovier

Nicolò Barovier

Born in Murano in 1895, where he died in 1947. The son of Benvenuto Barovier , Nicolò Barovier was both an entrepreneur and a designer. He and his brother, Ercole Bar...

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Howard Ben Tré

Howard Ben Tré

Howard Ben Tré is internationally recognized for his unique sculptures and large-scale works of art for public and private spaces. Ben Tré is a pioneer in the use of cast glass as a sculptu...

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