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Murana, Hand Blown Glass Vases by Fabio Novembre

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According to the Venetian tradition wearing a mask means to deny one’s own identity escaping from social conventions and regaining the freedom that Wilde, in his famous quote, defines as sincere. Murana is the name of the mask vase designed by Fabio Novembre for the famous Murano glass fournace Venini.

Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase…
Good morning Mrs. Mask, good morning Mrs. Murana.

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