Mauro Cenedese was born around the sixties in Venice. Mauro has worked at major Furnaces in Murano (including Moretti and others) for some time, and then decided to open his own furnace in the mainland where he specialized in "animals" for collection and elegant vases. Approximately five years ago began to collaborate with a few more established Murano Furnaces, in more of a freelance capacity to lend his talents and years of know-how to them.
Mauro has had some expositions in Egypt and parts of Europe outside of Italy. Mauro Cenedese is a young, up-and-coming craftsman and could one day become a Grand Maestro.
Cenedese is quite a widespread surname in the Veneto Region of Italy and bears with it, especially for Mauro, a vast amount of respect and responsibility to those that have, and will in the future, become skilled at the art of glass blowing. Those with the surname Cenedese like Gino, Simone, Giovanni, and Ampelio Cenedese has set the bar extremely high for those to follow.
The GINO CENEDESE and SON glassworks in obedience to the oldest Traditions, still works today with Glass with the techniques and the art of a craft handed down through generations.
It manufactures interior design objects, vases, lamps, chandeliers, gift items, filigree working, satin and beaten glass. In addition it designs lighting projects (contract).
1946-2007
61 Years of History
A history that of the GINO CENEDESE and SON glassworks, which weaves together the hundred-year-old tradition with the creative course of the great masters of the eighteenth century, the destiny of being born on an island of glassmakers with the artistic sensitivity and the entrepreneurial courage, and the technical expertise with the vocation of excellence.
An anniversary that is worth underlining in order to recount the love of glass and the beauty cultivated by the Cenedese family through the creation of objects destined to be unique pieces: blown glass, goblets, vases, plates, lamps and priceless Venetian chandeliers, besides works by artists and designers, each one interpreted with the material, color, and light, each one marked out by the manual skill and the talent of the masters.
From 1953 to 1958 the Cenedese family took advantage of the collaboration with the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, the creator of female figures in solid glass and bas-relief panels and designer of large-sized chandeliers.
In the same period they created "submerged" glass forms designed by the painter Luigi Scarpa Croce.
Subsequently the company undertook a continuing collaboration with Antonio Da Ros, an artist fascinated by the decorative and chromatic possibilities of the material, who from a young age learned all the secrets of the glassmaking art from the Cenedese family. With Da Ros, the Seventies saw an important creation of the "submerged" glass forms among which the "Contrappunti", fluids submerged playing on different tones of colors (works present at the various Venice Biennale Exhibitions, to many of the Milan Triennial Exhibitions and other important international exhibitions). Da Ros is a solid presence in glassmaking: under his artistic direction various lines of modern fancy goods have been developed, characterized by stylized forms with colored glass submersion.
In addition to fancy goods, important works have also been created by the Cenedese family in the field of lighting, both in the traditional style and in the design.
Amelio Cenedese has succeeded his father Gino, continuing the work following the guidelines already laid out. Presently the firms employs 60 workers in the production sector and 25 workers in the commercial sector, making one of the biggest employment complexes in Murano, where all the forms of artistic glass have been created
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