Collection: Murano Glass

Murano glass is not a brand name, but a place of origin. Glassworks have been operating on the island group in the Venetian Lagoon since the 13th century, and in the decades after the Second World War, the design language that is now considered the epitome of Italian post-war design emerged there: thick-walled bowls with colored cores, vases in strong amber and aubergine, and luminaires made of crystal glass and chrome.

This selection includes objects from the 1950s to the 1970s. Some of them can be attributed to the Sommerso technique, in which colored glass layers are dipped into each other and remain visible as clearly legible layers in the finished piece. Other pieces come from the tradition of art glass with melt-ins, thread overlays or gold inclusions.

A note on attribution, because this is often handled too carelessly in this collecting area: A large part of Murano production left the factories without a factory label, and many forms were produced in parallel by several manufacturers. Where I name a workshop or a designer, the object description states what this is based on. Where this cannot be proven, I also say so. An unmarked piece is therefore no less valuable, it is simply described more honestly.