Moro Family Glassworks
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Overview
The Moro family has been working glass in Murano since 1985. In their atelier, Colleoni Artistic Glassworks, a new assistant works for ten years before being considered for the rank of master. That standard is not tradition for its own sake. It is the minimum time required to learn what molten glass will and will not do. This experience takes you inside that atelier, not as a spectator but as a participant. You will blow glass. Then, as the day cools and the furnace light changes character, the workshop transforms. A table is laid inside it. Candles are lit. You dine with the Master and his team in the space where the work was made.
Included Privileges
- Immersive experience inside the working atelier of Colleoni Artistic Glassworks, Murano
- Hands-on participation in creating a glass artwork under the guidance of the Master
- Candlelit dinner inside the transformed workshop, shared with the Master and the team
- All tools, materials, and safety equipment
- Your finished glass piece, presented in a wooden box and shipped to your home
Itinerary
- Arrival at Colleoni Artistic Glassworks on the island of Murano.
- Welcome and silent immersion in the working atelier. Observation before participation.
- Under the guidance of the Master glassmaker, you participate in creating a glass artwork.
- The process is hands-on and physically present: heat, weight, breath, and patience.
- The atelier is transformed into a candlelit sanctuary.
- Dinner shared with the Master glassmaker and the team: an artisan's meal inside the working space.
- Your collaboratively created artwork is presented in a wooden box.
- Due to the required cooling time, your finished piece will be shipped safely to your home.
The Experience
You arrive to silence and heat. The furnace is the first thing you hear: a low, continuous roar that the masters no longer notice and that visitors never forget. The Moro team is already at work. You observe first. Instruction here is intuitive: you learn by watching the parabola of a gather at the end of a blowpipe, by feeling the heat on your fac...
Why Guests Love It
“Creating my own glass in Murano and then sitting down to dinner with the people who made it alongside me: that is a form of belonging I had not expected to find.” — Naledi M., Botswana
Meet the Expert
The Moro Family: Colleoni Artistic Glassworks, Murano
The Moro family has operated Colleoni Artistic Glassworks on the island of Murano since 1985. In collaboration with the most talented glass masters of each generation, the family produces one of the most extensive ranges of Murano glass objects in existence: table sets, vases, chandeliers, sculptures, and jewellery. A new assistant in the Moro atelier works for ten years before being considered for the rank of master. This is not a courtesy title. It reflects the minimum time required to develop the physical intuition that molten glass demands. The origins of glassmaking in Murano reach back to the 12th century, when the Republic of Venice moved the city's furnaces to the island both to protect Venice from fire and to guard the secret of Murano glass from the world. That secret has been shared very selectively ever since.