The art of Murano glass 05:37. 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 ...

"In Murano we are born near the ovens," master glass-maker Simone Cenedese told Sunday Morning correspondent Allen Pizzey. "It's a thing that comes to you like speaking and writing and walking.

On Murano, Making Glass for More Than 700 Years 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.

Of course, like sand, the main component of glass, such expertise was impossible to fully contain. Murano lost its dominance by the 18th century, as countries including France, England and Germany ...

In recent decades, Murano glass has fallen out of fashion. Since the 1920s and ’30s, collectors and museums alike favored more streamlined, traditionally modernist forms over ornate glass.

Gino Seguso, 70, has less reason to complain than most. His firm, Vetreria Archimede Seguso, was founded by his father in 1946, but Mr Seguso says his family have been making glass in Murano for ...

When you visit Murano today you’ll find a glass store in almost every building, selling all manner of glass, from cheap trifles and colorful baubles to incredibly expensive glass masterpieces.

At one time, Murano was the global leader in glassmaking, renowned for unparalleled quality, style, and innovation, including the invention of “cristallo,” clear glass. But over its 700-year ...