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I recently visited my friend Amedeo at his third-generation workshop in Verona, Italy, the town of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. There he works with his two sons, Valentino and Roberto, to transform ordinary glass into luminous works of functional art. Their latest masterpiece features our artisans’ interpretation of the sea and some of the magnificent life forms it contains.
To create this spectacular sea life vase, Amedeo begins by applying his original stucco designs – including a sea turtle, fish and seahorse among various aquatic plants – onto each glass vase, uno alla volta. His sons then apply layers of glistening silver leaf and rich, colorful glazes to the designs to complete each sea life scene. Once each piece is dry, it is polished to a gleaming luster and Amedeo engraves his signature onto the bottom of the vase as his finishing touch.
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Terri S. Alpert
Founder & CEO
T.alpert@unoallavolta.com
Since 1966, Ermengildo and his wife Renata have been crafting and decorating exquisite blown-glass ornaments in the picturesque village of Bellagio, overlooking Italy’s Lake Como. Together with their daughter Annalisa, they create highly collectible glass ornaments. With remarkable craftsmanship, each ornament is carefully hand-blown using traditional techniques as they gather a dab of molten glass at the end of a tube, and then heat it over a flame as they gently blow to inflate the shape. To finish, the ornaments are then hand-painted with charming motifs honoring our animal friends.
Their newest work of art is this cheery seamstress, Stitch. She starts as a hand-blown Polish glass ball upon which our artisans bestow a unique personality. Each ornament is given just the right head full of fanciful trims, including ribbons, buttons, pins, even a mini pin cushion.
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