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The
Ferro Toso & C. glassworks was founded in Murano in 1901 by the master
Ferdinando Ferro, of Luigi Toso -soon the only owner of the firm - and
the Master Giovanni Nason ÒSistoÓ. Towards the end of the First World
War the firm moved temporarily to Naples taking the name of Vitrum S.A.I.A.R.
Ferro Toso, which upon its return to Venice became S.A.I.AR. Ferro Toso.
After the initial production of lighting and decorative glass the glassworks
worked with several designers making objects of refined manufacture such
as the clear murrine vases by the Swede Anna Akerdhal, Modernist-style
monochromes by Vittorio Donˆ and Anita Antoniazzi, traditional Blown glass
engraved in the S.A.L.I.R. workshops; Guido Balsamo Stella designed vases
and animals that were exhibited at the Monza Triennale in 1930. Upon the
death of their father Luigi, in 1933 the sons Artemio and Decio, with
the subsequent participation of the younger Mario, took over the running
of the firm which three years later merged with the Vetreria artistica
Barovier, creating Ferro Toso Barovier & C. in 1942 become Barovier &
Toso, a firm still active today.
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