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Renata Ferrari

  • La Perla Veneziana
  • Beadworker
  • Venice, Italy
  • Master Artisan
Renata Ferrari Beadworker
Contact
Italian, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+39 041739695
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From mother to daughter

  • • Renata learnt bead making from her mother
  • • She has several lines of beads, ranging from traditional to contemporary
  • • Her co-workers started training with her when they were 15

Renata Ferrari could make beads before she could walk. Her mother, Adelina, was an expert Venetian-beads maker, an artisan and also an artist: whatever she saw – a painting, a scarf, a landscape – she would reproduce in her glass beads. She worked in the kitchen, where she had a small furnace. On the same flame, on Sundays, she would prepare barley sweets for her daughters; today, Renata still associates the fire to the sweet scent of barley sweets. Through the flame, Adelina taught Renata life, and Renata never once burnt herself, despite the fact that they had a 1,200°C furnace in the kitchen. At only 25, Renata opened her own lab, eventually “hiring” her mother who, after having been her teacher, became her business partner and her muse.

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Correr

This very elegant necklace consists of three strands of beads. Each strand contains beads made entirely by hand through the traditional lampworking technique, "reticello florato", and irregularly shaped beads in aventurine, typical of the early decades. The closure is in 24-kt gold plated silver.

Length 80 cm
Length 89 cm
Length 98 cm
Diameter 1.4 cm

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Gioielli Tiepolo

This very elegant and precious jewel is composed of beads produced entirely by hand through traditional lampworking, decorated with sprigs of green leaves and rosebuds in gold ruby and 24-kt gold leaf beads. The decorations are reminiscent of the 19th and 20th century. The silver closure is hand gilded in gold leaf 24-kt by a master goldsmith.

Length 51 cm
Length 63 cm
Diameter 1.4 cm
Diameter 1.6 cm

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Mondo Lagunare

Part of the "Echoes of the Lagoon" collection which explores the desire to revolutionise the appearance and tactility of glass with an innovative look and a special attention to the environment. The jewellery is made of Murano glass, aquamarine in colour, and waste material of traditional multicolour lampwork. It is set on a copper tube. It was first exhibited at the Venice Glass Week 2021.

Length 78 cm
Length 88 cm
Diameter 1.6 cm
Diameter 3.5 cm

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Caléidoscope

This necklace is part of the "Echoes of the Lagoon" collection of 2018 which comes from the desire to revolutionise the appearance and tactility of glass with an innovative look and a special attention to the environment. This jewellery is made of Murano glass aquamarine beads and waste material of traditional multicolour lampwork. It was first exhibited at Venice Glass Week 2021.

Length 72 cm
Diameter 1.6 cm

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Etruria

Since 2018, the artisan has explored the study of unearthed archaeological jewels in the collection "Experimental Archaeology" project. This jewel is composed of three strands of pearls in turquoise glass paste with a "dig" finish (called "vagos") obtained exclusively with the flame of the traditional lamp. The beads are reproductions from the 6th to 2nd century BC. The bronze closure was made entirely by hand by a master goldsmith.

Length 75 cm
Length 62 cm
Length 54 cm
Diameter 1.4 cm
Diameter 1.6 cm
Diameter 1.8 cm

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