Corriere del Veneto - September 12 , 2012
New York Times - October 19 , 2014
Scissors and breath to create glass
Seguso opens the furnace at night
Gianluca and
Pierpaolo Seguso
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It was an inauspicious start to a journey that many a trusted taste-
maker advised me not to take. At Seguso, among the oldest and most
revered names o n the island — going back 23 generations to 1397
— the trend is toward custom everything, including the tours avai-
lable to visitors. Rather than marching crowds of tourists through its
operations, Seguso has created “Night in the Furnace” dinner events
and “Glass Experience” tours for six or fewer guests, to spend several
hours seeing every aspect of the glassmaking process and its long
history in the hands of Seguso maestros.
The current generation’s grandfather, Archimede Seguso, was a pio-
neer in revolutionizing the industry in the mid-20th century. The pro-
lific family has had many ventures on the island, withstanding the
tides of taste and fortune.
Because we wanted
visitors to feel the furnace,
to use all of their senses,
from the heat that flares
up the body, to the touch
of the material being created.
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