I learned the technique from my father Florino, with whom I began an apprenticeship when I was 14 years old. When I was 17, he died. Since then, I have continued alone. Our family tradition is to work with a furnace, but my father had specialised in lampworking.

I’ve played with glass since I was a child. It was normal, because my father had the workshop under our house. I remember there was always a lot of life in the workshop and that remains so now; it's been the same atmosphere for centuries, just as the work itself has remained almost unchanged

Our traditional line of work is inspired by ancient Venice, to which we add our own touch. Above all, we are inspired by the Veronese type of glasswork, keeping faith with the original present in the picture L’Annunciation (1558) by Paolo Veronese, kept at the Academy of Venice.

In the past I have, before I dedicated myself to my two children, Emanuel and Elia; they went to the artistic high school and then they came to me. I didn’t push them into this profession, I just told them 'you must love this work, otherwise it is just a big sacrifice and you won't get results'.