Murano / Venice / Online
Murano glassmaker founded in 1923, producing colored drinking glasses and tableware that bring Venetian glassmaking into contemporary dining and hospitality settings.
Best for Colored Murano glassware for the table.
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ORBISCERAMICISTS & GLASSMAKERS IN VENICE5 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Ceramicists & Glassmakers in Venice
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On-island Murano store with 1934 factory heritage — 3,000+ certified pieces with a public authenticity registry.
Best for Certified Murano vases, sculptures, and gifts.
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Heritage HouseMurano / Venice / Online
Seguso represents twenty-three generations of Murano glassmaking carried by one family. Its glass is blown on Murano itself, continuing a dynastic craft tradition passed down within the same family line.
Best for Dynastic Murano art glass.
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Murano's modernist furnace since 1921 — Fazzoletto vases and glass signed by century-defining designers. Official site still sells the Fazzoletto as a house icon credited to Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini; the Murano boutique is on the same fondamenta as the furnace.
Best for Collectible Murano art glass.
Venini was founded on Murano in 1921 by Paolo Venini — a Milanese lawyer with impeccable taste and heretical instincts — and became the furnace where Murano stopped repeating itself and joined modernism. His method was the invitation: architects, designers and artists brought to the island to think in glass with the master glassblowers. Carlo Scarpa's years produced the battuto and sommerso techniques' masterpieces; Gio Ponti, Fulvio Bianconi — whose Fazzoletto handkerchief vase of 1948 remains the house's icon — and later Tapio Wirkkala, Ettore Sottsass and Gae Aulenti all signed the catalogue.
The techniques are the treasury: canne verticali stripes, murrine mosaics, incalmo joins of separate colored bubbles — executed at temperatures where only inherited skill survives, by maestri whose lineages the house names.
Venini glass sits in MoMA and the Triennale; the Fondazione Cini archives its paper trail. Still blowing on Murano a century on, Venini remains the island's modernist conscience — art glass with authorship, signed in fire.
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A working Murano furnace you can shop — Roberto Beltrami's team blows commissions live and ships to 60+ countries.
Best for Commissioned Murano pieces straight from the furnace.
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