Products

• Glass Fusion
  Design
  All the products belonging to the lines created by Petenà are the result of a thorough design that follows the market trends without disregarding the traditional Venetian glass-making art.
  Manufacturing of decorations
  Part of the processed glass is used to manufacture decorations to be placed on the plates; the most widely spread ones are the Grits and the coloured glass Bars.
  Decoration of details
  Details are thoroughly decorated too. Indeed the attention paid to each detail makes the object you are about to buy a unique and precious item.
  Composition of a pice
  Just like a painter’s picture, a glass pane is ready to become a single piece and each element is matched in a perfect way in order to create a real work of art, aimed at winning its buyers’ heart.
  Moulding and cooking
  Once the composition is ready, products are placed in a mould, which is used to outline their shape after they have been cooked in the oven. The cooking cycle will last for 48 hours in order to avoid glass heat-shocks.
  Drilling and packaging
  Some products, including clocks, are drilled and ground in order to eliminate any impurity from their surface. After that, they are packed so that customers can boast a certified product.
• Blown Glass
  Venetian glass is the epitome of refi nement and transparency, and its fascinating history and legacy dates back more than a thousand years.
  The oldest document confi rming the presence of glassmaking in Venice is dated 982AD, over a thousand years ago. Byzantine glassmaking traditions played a role in the development of the art in Venice, then a bustling centre of trade between Europe and the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean. The Venetian artisans were so highly skilled that they gained great control over the colour and transparency of
  their glass and mastered a variety of decorative techniques that enabled them to produce objects whose  legance and quality have never been equalled. Towards the end of the thirteenth century the Venetian Republic ordered all glassmakers to move their foundries to the island of Murano, due to the risk of fires. For centuries Europe’s most prominent aristocratic families commissioned objects, vases and glasses of such exquisite aesthetics and handcrafting that today they are housed in museums and in private collections. In the making of their highly creative glassware Murano glassmasters still use the simple tools that were used in the past like pliers, blowing pipe, iron rods and clippers. Venetian glass is in fact a ‘long’ type of glass, i.e. it remains soft for a relatively long time before it has to be placed in the furnace. This is important for hand-working because it allows the glassmaker more time to shape the material, to blow it into thin layers and to employ the many complex techniques that distinguish Venetian glassware and make it stand in a class of its own. The art and techniques of master glassmakers are handed
  down andando a bottega, that is ‘only by learning in the shop’ from the masters, exactly like in the medieval times. In fact – in addition to employing and refi ning many technologies – the art Venetian glassmaking includes a cultural aspect, a creative force that is handed down to the new generations only through hard work, modesty, great dedication and attention to the work carried out.