Venini

VENINI was founded in Murano on 2 October 1921, when the Milanese lawyer Paolo Venini and the Venetian antiquarian Giacomo Cappellin established Vetri Soffiati Cappellin Venini & C. and were joined by the artist Vittorio Zecchin as artistic director. That same year Zecchin created the Veronese vase, which became the symbol of the company; shops followed in Venice and Paris in 1922 and in via Montenapoleone in Milan in 1923.

For more than a century master glassmakers and artists have met in the Fornace, and the company remains an icon of Italian artistic glass: handmade blown Murano glass, produced with techniques such as pulegoso, and collections ranging from historical models to pieces by contemporary designers. Now part of the Gruppo DAMIANI, VENINI is based in Murano, where its boutique and furnace stand on Fondamenta dei Vetrai.