Progressive Venetian glass work

• • Fabio has reinvented the glassblown chandelier
• • His pieces combine craft, design and technology
• • He started out working with his father

As a boy, Fabio Fornasier did not think he would follow in the footsteps of his father Luigi, a celebrated chandelier artist in Murano. But at the age of 16, when he was sent to the furnace by his parents as a punishment for not doing well at school, he was struck by a vocation for glasswork. Heir to an ancient and celebrated tradition, he soon felt the need to create a different chandelier, “new in design, but consistent with the tradition in the structure and method of assembly,” he says. The Aria e Fuoco (Air and Fire) oil chandelier, with its slender shapes and sinuous lines, was the starting point of a new path for Fabio. It gave life to the LU Murano collection. Characterised by the union of design, art and technology, Fabio's creations blend the needs of contemporaneity with the ancient wisdom of the furnace.