Projects

EGE is an international project dedicated to contemporary glass and art.
Designed to enhance the role of the glass craft as a cultural heritage to safeguard and promote, EGE was created from the collaboration between the City of Venice, the Consortium Promovetro Murano and the Glass Museum of Murano / Civic Museum Foundation of Venice, with the scientific coordination of Cornelia Lauf (scientific director of the project).
“Cosmic Blossom” – this installation created from a design by Czechoslovakian designer Jikta Kamencová Skuhrava, represents the metamorphosis of a hypothetical “flower” growing in the universe. It is a great “cosmic flower” consisting of hundreds of sticks in glass wildflower murrine tubes; a floating organic unity, suspended in zero gravity.
Murano Glass Museum 18/04/2015 – 06/07/2015.
Design: Jikta Kamencová Skuhrava
Creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini

“Butterfly”: interpreted and stylized reproduction of a butterfly, made by glass-fusion, with cold work and carving to add texture to the glass.
On display at the exhibition “Ecstasy of Glass”, in the Church of the Scalzi of Venice.

Design and Creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini

“Maskera” interpreted reproduction of ethnic masks, made in glass-fusion, with cold work and carving to add texture to the glass. On display at the exhibition “The charm of the glass”, the Glass Museum of Murano.
Design and creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini

At the Venetian stage of the America’s Cup in May 2012, they built their own design of two catamarans with sails in glass-melting, engraved in yellow / black, mounted on boats made of glass-melting and beveled, placed on a “Cotisso” green water glass wave.

Design and Creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini

“Butterfly”, a piece created during the art event held in Sirmione,Italy an initiative of the Pro Loco of Sirmione, in collaboration with the Consortium Promovetro Murano, to pay tribute to women and particularly to Maria Callas. The object shows a woman’s body made of glass-melting and engraving, and carving in the center.
Design and Creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi

Designed objects, commissioned and produced by the European Parliament, used for corporate gifts. Blue and Aventurine Glassware, with the logo of the European Parliament engraved and gilded, packed in individual velvet boxes.
Design and creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini

Piece commissioned by CERN of Geneva, made of glass-melting in aquamarine and murrine designed by Franco and Mauro Panizzi. “Plate Redeemer” with engraved CMS logo; additional incisions and carving of the glass complete the work.
Design and Creation: Franco and Mauro Panizzi
Photography: Diego Lazzarini