Andrea Zilio

Andrea Zilio

He was born in Venice in 1966 and lives in Murano. He began his career as an artisan in the antique furniture restoration sector, but his great passion for glass led him in a short time t...

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Laura de Santillana

Laura de Santillana

Glassmaker Laura de Santillana lives and works on the Giudecca Island in Venice. She was born in Venice in 1955 into a glass dynasty; her grandfather ...

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Albino Carrara

Albino Carrara

Master glassmaker in the 1950s at the Ferro & Lazzarini furnace who presented his glass objects at the XXXI Venice Biennale in 1962. He made several objects based on the designs of famous artis...

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Alessandro Barbaro

Alessandro Barbaro

In the long Venetian tradition of glassmaking, the island of Murano has certainly a prominent role since it helped to preserve secrets, traditions, techniques of this charming art for centuries. It...

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Péter Borkovics

Péter Borkovics

The glass sculptures of Peter Borkovics (born 1971) are consistent in their formal and technical analysis in which the artists enquires into the melting, flowing and sudden hardening qualities...

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Giorgio Barera

Giorgio Barera

Trainied as a graphic designer, he came into contact with the Murano glassmaking tradition, creating chandeliers and objects, at Formia International . He collaborates with Mee Murano 041 and wit...

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Michael Reza Foroutan

Michael Reza Foroutan

Designer at Formia International , for few years. We don't have more inormation. Please add your comment if you have. SHOW PRODUCTS

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Voltolina

Voltolina

In 1984 the Voltolina brothers, heirs of a long Venetian tradition in the manufacture of glass, decided to diversify their production by producing high-quality glass for lighting systems. ...

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Giuseppe Lorenzo Briati

Giuseppe Lorenzo Briati

Giuseppe Briati (Murano, 1686 - Venice, 1772) was born in Murano from a family that for generations was an expert in glass, and therefore entered in the Golden Book of Murano. In 1733, Br...

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Gianni Toso

Gianni Toso

  The Toso family has a 700-year uninterrupted tradition of Murano glass blowing, creating glass vessels that became the jealously guarded treasures of Venetian aristocracy. The past 50 years of th...

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Adriano Berengo

Adriano Berengo

Adriano Berengo was born in Venice in 1947 and lives between Venice and Beirut. The biography of Berengo contemplates a degree in Languages at Ca 'Foscari and a doctorate in Comparative Literature...

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Elio Quarisa

Elio Quarisa

1936-2010 In his long career as a glass maker, Elio Quarisa worked at the finest glass factories in Murano, beginning at Barovier & Toso glassworks at the age of nine, to help support his fa...

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Rosa Barovier Menasti

Rosa Barovier Menasti

Glass historian. Descended from one of the ancient Venetian glass families, Rosa Barovier Mentasti graduated in Ancient Letters at the University of Padua in 1973 with a thesis on ancient...

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Martin Janecký

Martin Janecký

Martin started working with glass at the age of 13 in his father's factory in the Czech Republic. His secondary school education focused on creating glass artwork at the Novy Bor School. In...

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Eduino Ferro

Eduino Ferro

Eduino Ferro was for years the first master of the Pauly & C. glassworks with which he participated in the Universal Exhibition in Chicago in 1934. A year later he founded ...

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Flavio Poli

Flavio Poli

Born in Chioggia (Venice, Italy) in 1900, he died in Venice in 1984. In 1929 Flavio Poli collaborated with the I.V.A.M. - of which he was a partner Libero Vitali - ...

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Vincenzo Zanetti (Abate)

Vincenzo Zanetti (Abate)

He was a Muranese priest and historian, who founded the Murano Glass Museum in 1861 with the intent to restore the lustre of Muranese glassmaking and relaunch the industry that was going throu...

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Thomas Apa

Thomas Apa

Thomas was born in Murano in 1980. From a very young age he was fascinated by the world of glass with which he is surrounded. After graduation he decided to contact Dario Frare to be introduced...

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