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Alberto Donà was born in Italy in 1944. He began working in the glass field at the age of 13. He worked with many masters and had the opportunity to work abroad, in Venezuela. His foremost influen...
“My investigation starts with materials and objects that spark interest for their formal qualities and their potential in conveying meaning. I often make use of familiar items that are at once...
François Décorchemont comes from a family of artists: his father, Louis-Émile Décorchemont (1851-1921), born in Saint-Pierre d'Autils, was a sculptor. After studying at the National School of Deco...
Martin Bradley was born in 1931 in Richmond, Surrey in England. Since childhood he has shown great interest in art. Bradley drops out of school and, at the age of fourteen, embarks as a c...
He was born in Venice in 1965. At 18 he graduated in electronics. In his search for a job, fate and providence gave him the opportunity to become an apprentice in the ancient tradition of Venetian...
Vittorio Costantini was born in Burano, an island near Murano, in 1944. The son of a fisherman and a lace maker he began working in the glass factory at the age of 11. At the age of ...
Work nourished by emotion and imagination likewise triumphed over formal theory among a few glass designers active in Milan itself. Erwin Burger, the cutter and engraver long employed by...
Danish glass artist Nanna Backhaus Brown began her training as a glass artist in Arresø Glashytte in North Zealand, Denmark. After qualification, she moved to France and worked at...
Born in Milan in 1895, he died in Venice in 1959. Entrepreneur and designer, a law school graduate, from 1921 through the year of his death, he dedicated himself to the glasshouse he founded, the V...
Born in Alba (CN) on May 20, 1956. In 1975, after the artistic high school in Novara, fascinated by ancient Venetian painting, he stayed for a few years in Mogliano Veneto in the Treviso ...
Ermanno Toso (Murano 1903-1973) began to work at the Fratelli Toso workshop in 1924, where he was later to become a partner. In 1936, he was named artistic and marketing dir...
British glass artist Andrew Brown studied art and design in Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK) before completing his degree in 3D Glass Design from the University of Wolverhampton. Then he went on t...
Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955. He received his artistic training between his hometown, Venice, Rome, and Milan, where he currently lives and works. An artist operating at ...
Born in Milan on February 21, 1920. In 1945 you graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano. In 1951 you began your career with Franco Albini, then in 1962 with Antonio...
Born in Washington DC in 1949, James Carpenter graduated in 1972 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. After his first collaboration at Venini, from October...
Franco Albini was born in 1905 in Robbiate (Como). He graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1929. The following year he opened his own architecture studio, focusing...
He was born in Murano in 1951 into a family of glass masters and dedicated himself to goldsmithing in the years of his early youth. He was hired in 1967, for a collaboration that will last about t...
Philip Baldwin 1947, New York Monica Guggisberg 1955, Bern Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin have been working together since 1980. For 20 years their studio was based in Swi...