Barovier&Toso

Barovier&Toso has been blowing glass in Murano since 1295, and its furnace on Fondamenta Vetrai still works with the simple tools and gestures of a craft handed down for more than twenty generations. In 1455 the Republic of Venice granted Angelo Barovier the exclusive right to produce Cristallo Veneziano, a crystal without lead or arsenic whose formula, progressively refined, is still in use.

The company, Vetrerie Artistiche Riunite S.r.l., makes chandeliers, suspensions, ceiling, wall, table and floor lamps in over 100 collections and about 550 models, with more than 5,000 combinations across 30 colours and 10 traditional Venetian workings. Bespoke work runs alongside, and Palazzo Barovier&Toso in Milan, a showroom and concept flat, together with a Singapore showroom, present the collections.