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Renzo Vianello

Master of post-production, glass grinding, and one of the founders of Ars Murano in 1982.
1948
Master grinder Renzo Vianello at work

Role
Master grinder, founding partner

Born
Venice, 1948

Training
Archimede Seguso, Livio Seguso

Founding
1982, with Elio Raffaeli and Roberto Cammozzo



His passion for Murano glass and art leads Maestro Vianello to create majestic, inimitable, visionary abstract sculptures.


Portrait of Renzo Vianello among glass works
Portrait of Renzo Vianello among glass works
Renzo Vianello drawing a work
Renzo Vianello drawing a work
Renzo Vianello at the grinding wheel
Renzo Vianello at the grinding wheel


«The tools employed to smooth and sometimes redefine glass shapes have no secrets for him.»


Born in Venice in 1948, at 20 he turned down a job at sea to join his brother at Archimede Seguso's furnace, where he discovered his passion for glass and its post-production techniques.

With Livio Seguso, a true purist, after only four days he was in charge of the whole grinding department. Then independence and, with Elio Raffaeli and Roberto Cammozzo, the founding of Ars Murano.

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