A. Ve. M. Arte Vetraria Muranese

The history of the A.VE.M. – Arte Vetraria Muranese, founded in the 1930s by Antonio and Egidio Ferro, Emilio Nason and Giulio Radi, is told through the glass items belonging to the important collection of Lutz Holz, who has collected the most significant examples of historic glassware from Murano for years.

This wide-ranging, important 20th-century nucleus offers a comprehensive overview of one particular company which, through artists like Vittorio Zecchin, Anzolo Fuga and Giulio Radi, made a fundamental contribution to the introduction of design into the world of glassmaking.

The relationship between master glassmakers and designers constitutes an important chapter in the history of glassmaking, which renews itself re-interpreting the aesthetic evolutions of the 20th century as they trace out the new artistic forms through the decorative arts. Essential in form and innovative for the new colour effects, the glass objects displayed belong to the finest glass production of the Art Nouveau period.