Murano’s glass industry produced a lot of functional and industrial glass, like bottles, mirrors, and other objects that had a useful purpose. It also pioneered glass as an artform, though ...

Contemporary Murano-inspired works, clockwise from top left: Stories of Italy black-and-white reversible vase, about $260, storiesofitaly.com; Hawkins New York Confetti double old-fashioned glass ...

By the late 1400s the glass blowers of Murano — named for the island to which they had been ordered because their ovens were a fire hazard among the wooden palaces of Venice — had established ...

Ini Archibong has designed a glass gin bottle for Gin & Juice The bottle ... 90s West Coast street style to the old-world culture of Murano glassmaking, which was concentrated into law on the ...

The six new scents are the most precious (and, at £1,900 a bottle, the most costly) in the history of Bulgari perfume. Each is encased in a Murano glass bottle using a technique ­known as Sbruffo, ...

Born in the Italian town of Brescia, Roberto Beltrami grew up just a few hours’ drive from Venice and the island of Murano, world-famous for producing beautiful glassware. But it was nearly ...

MURANO, Italy — There has been an unusual silence within the world-famous glass factories of this Venetian island. On a late December day, at the site of the largest producer, all that could be ...

It’s about 10 feet higher than the next tallest glass tree in the world, located in Murano, Italy ... recycler who will sell it back to the bottle-making industry. Last year, the project ...