Ermanno Nason

Egyptian Design

1964
Murano glass
36 cm high

Paesaggio Lagunare

1980
Murano glass
31.5 cm high

Redentore

1980
Murano glass
34 cm high

Vase

Murano glass
41 cm high
Designed for Cenedese

Vase

Murano glass
24 cm high
Designed for Cenedese

ERMANNO NASON  Italian, born 1928

Ermanno Nason is the great glass maker maestro and member of a family that has played an important part in every stage of the history of Murano from the XVII century to today.

A favourite with the artists of Egidio Costantini’s La Fucina degli Angeli, Ermanno Nason has worked together with Pablo Picasso, JeanCocteau, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Kokoshka, Nag Arnoldi, Borsi, Jean Le Witt, Fred Fay, Krayer, Antun Motika and Bergamini, Guttuso, Braque, Verde, Hundertwasser, Fontana, Pignon, Bellini, Minguzzi, Goldoni, Carraro, Fulvio Bianconi, transforming their projects into the glass in innovative and unusual forms, achieving outstanding results with his a massello production, created by shaping glass as an incandescent mass.

Unrivalled in the history of glassmaking on Murano, his glass sculptures display a sensitivity that is sincere and convinced (and therefore convincing) towards the modern, abstract and informal.