Fratelli Toso, one of the oldest glass factories in Murano, was founded in 1854 by six Toso brothers from the Toso "Cangioro" family.
Murrina has always been the spearhead of its artistic production, one of the oldest and most traditional working techniques in Murano.
Throughout its long history, Fratelli Toso has collaborated with important artists and designers, but it has always remained a family business.
In 2024, 170 years after its founding, we are taking the opportunity to rethink the role of our twentieth-century art collection; it does not belong only to museum display cases, but it can interact with spaces, architecture and furnishings, even from the most diverse eras. It can communicate with other designs and materials as a single organic element, even if they belong to different traditions.

 

From September 10th to 29th 2024, on the occasion of Venice Glass Week 2024, Fratelli Toso opens its doors to show the most important glass works of its twentieth-century artistic production. A retrospective exhibition on the history of the glass factory, enriched by drawings and photographs preserved in the historical archive, with a special focus on one of the spearheads of Fratelli Toso production: the murrina.

The exhibition will take place in two complementary but at the same time very different spaces; Fornace, ex productive glass furnace now re-purposed as an exhibition space but where nothing has been changed, keeping intact the aesthetics of a place of production, and Casa Rosanna, a space set up with a retro aesthetic, obtained from the drawing studio of Rosanna Toso, the last artistic director of the historic glassfactory. Both at Fondamenta Colleoni 7, Fratelli Toso's historic address since its founding in 1854.

A celebration of a family project that continues to renew and evolve.
An opportunity to talk about our history and tradition, an opportunity to once again promote awareness of the twentieth-century artistic production of the Fratelli Toso glassworks.