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MURANO GLASS IS ONLY MADE IN MURANO

ALL OUR UNIQUE PIECES ARE HAND MADE IN MURANO-VENICE.

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Its beginnings have been traced to the year 982. Since then, this Venetian island, which like Venice is divided by canals and crossed by bridges, has made the art of glassmaking much more than an economic activity...it's a way of life! From medieval times to the Renaissance, from the colour developments of the nineteenth century to the most daring contemporary art trends, Murano infuses the tradition of ancient techniques into glass. Though their names hark back to long ago - rigadin, cotisso, filigrana, avventurina - today they are combined with constant technical and artistic innovation. A very special history, an important part of the world's artistic heritage, a modern craft and industrial activity. Muramo is the name of art glass throughout the world!

I forni e le canne per la lavorazione del vetro. foto by:g.frison

ART GLASS IS...

There are many people who love glass in its artistic forms; few know how it is created. A 70% silica sand mix is transformed into a liquid state at 1700 degrees C. Fluxes or melting agents such as soda are added to lower the melting point significantly. Along with the addition of special fining agents, this aids the working of the glass, which in the case of Murano is particularly slow and detailed. The glass is picked up with an iron blowpipe, and worked in the piazza by the maestro and his assistants, i.e. the servente, the serventin, the garzone and the garzonetto, accordingto an ancient hierarchy which determines their responsabilities. Not only finished products are made, but semifinished pieces as well, to be beautifully decorated, ground or etched.

Pulizia del forno Murano Venezia foto by: g.frison

Canes are also made, for the famous murrine, or for creating the inimitable beads. But never, even in the case of mass-produced items, is one piece ever the same as another, because the glassblower's hand can never repeat the exact same gestures and creative forms.

THE GLASS TRADEMARK IS..

.Those who purchase Murano glass, of any form, style or price, want more than just...glass.

Dear Giuseppe
As you know, there are people who could live at any time, and others who, chough capable of adapting to different eras, could live only in a few places.
You, I believe, could live in any time, but only in Venice.
I can sense a profitable synergy between you and this city, a continuous osmosis of emotion and vibration directed toward realizing a unique, and perhaps unconscious, ideal.
The search for one’s own identity is, after all, the search for the significance of life, through an understanding – not only of oneself – but of all the values that can give substance to more secret thoughts.
What I envy most is not your capacity to render your ideas in colour and to give your emotions form with a few chromatic strokes, but, rather, your capacity to bring out everything inside the very personal, unique ideals you confront daily.
This is not the fruit of fashion, but of your continuously evolving search.
Other than giving Venice a dreamy and captivating image, your canvases, represent a piercing investigation of your roots, an agonizing attempt to identify yourself with a city whose beauty is, in fact, timeless.
Usually, believing and creating are not the same thing. Yet, when a person like you manages to be as coherent in his daily life as in the deepest corners of his own soul both in his way of life and in his logical canons then thought and action become the only possible projection of oneself on oneself and on the realty of the outside world.
This is why you are always serene, always open and affable with what surrounds you and with what often even keep you from your paintings.
Your smile testifies that one can be happy, while your tireless activity suggests that, in life, one cannot allow time to become a useless shower of days and hours.

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