THE GLASS FLOWERS OF COSTANTINO BORMIOLI

Small, delicate and colourful works of art

THE GLASS FLOWERS OF COSTANTINO BORMIOLI

The technique of glassmaking in Liguria dates back to the 12th century and can be said to have originated with the craftsmen of Altare, in the province of Savona. It is distinguished by objects characterised by essential and almost minimal shapes that today, thanks to new technologies, are accompanied by coloured blown glass and chiselled crystals.

Altare is home to Costantino Bormioli's famous workshop. One of his most popular creations are the flowers, the anthurium the orchid and the narcissus, polychrome blown glass, made by hand and blowing by combining a transparent borosilicate glass base with a composition of 'frits' (glass powders) distributed on the surface and then fused and tempered. The fourth flower is the 'big rose' in blown glass, composed of three orders of petals and coloured red (it is possible to request it in other colours).

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