Salviati

Salviati is a Venetian glass company founded in 1859, when the lawyer Antonio Salviati opened premises at number 731 in Dorsoduro, Venice, and set out to revive Murano glassmaking, then in decline for decades. He was supported by Antonio Colleoni, mayor of Murano, and by Abbot Vincenzo Zanetti, founder of the glass museum.

After a monumental mosaic at the First Glassmakers’ Exhibition of 1864, the company internationalised, listing in London in 1866 and winning a gold medal in Paris in 1867; its mosaics still adorn the façade of the building now housing the Apple Store on Regent Street. Salviati has worked with designers including Luciano Gaspari, Sergio Asti, Ingo Maurer, Ross Lovegrove, Tom Dixon and Luca Nichetto, and its pieces are held by MoMA and the Corning Museum of Glass. Since 2015 it has been part of the Umana group.