From Byzantine mosaics to modern collaborations, Murano’s glassmakers have spent centuries turning fire into fantasy – proof ...

Some of Barovier&Toso’s work can be seen in chandeliers for Louis Vuitton stores and Four Seasons hotels. Working glass in the Barovier&Toso furnace. The company markets itself as the oldest of its ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Murano Glass Chandelier by Studio Laurin No other form of lighting makes a statement ...

As New York readers know by now, the sometime Instagram lifecaster, not-quite memoirist, and full-time fame monster Caroline Calloway has packed up and left town, leaving behind a filthy, half-painted ...

Seth Doane has found a true GLASS ACT, just across the water from Venice: The furnaces glow orange and belch heat. And at around 3,000 degrees, something almost magical takes place: a sand mixture ...

You might say that Murano glass is sort of like cryptocurrency: Everyone talks about it, but nobody knows where it comes from. In fact, true Murano art glass is made in Italy and is likely to be ...

Giberto Arrivabene can’t remember the last time all of the glassmakers’ furnaces in Murano went out. “Probably, I would guess, the Second World War,” ponders the glass designer, a native Venetian ...

How to relaunch an 800-year-old, deeply conservative and inward-looking industry? A group of enlightened individuals and institutions in Venice have come to their help, with exhibitions, ideas, ...

There is no sign for The Nines. Or even a marked entrance—the street-facing vestibule doubles as a gateway to Acme Downstairs, the nightclub that’s been a mainstay of millennial nightlife since ...

Descend the inconspicuous stairwell outside of Milan’s public pool, Piscina Cozzi (designed by Luigi Secchi in the 1930s and still very much in use), during Milan Design Week 2025 and you’ll discover ...