Alessandro Boscolo

Education and Career

Alessandro Boscolo began working with glass at the age of thirteen in his family’s studio, inheriting the legacy  of NonSoloVetro, founded by his parents. After sixteen years of continuous production and apprenticeship, in 2021 he established his own atelier, “Alessandro Boscolo Murano,” a space dedicated to experimentation, teaching, and artistic creation. In 2018 he taught at the Lund University of Craftsmanship (Sweden), bringing the Murano lampworking technique into the academic world. During the same period, he took part in Murano Oggi 2018–2019, a permanent exhibition at the Murano Glass Museum, where his works remain on display. In 2026 he will take part in the GAS Conference at the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) and, in collaborationwith Lucio Bubacco, lead a live-streamed workshop on large-scale lampworking. Boscolo is featured in the Homo Faber Guide by the Michelangelo Foundation, which highlights Europe’s finest artisans, and heserves on the board of the Mostro di San Nicolò Murano.

Technical Skills

Boscolo specializes in lampworking blowing technique, a complex and rare discipline pioneered by his family and further refined by him. All his works are made with Murano glass (COE 104). His mentors include his father, who guided him until the age of seventeen, and later Cesare Toffolo, a key influence and source of inspiration. After a decade of self-study, Alessandro developed a unique technical and stylistic language grounded in research and experimentation.

Artistic Statement

For Alessandro Boscolo, glass is not merely a craft, it is a way of living, breathing, and thinking. “I live, breathe, eat, and sleep glass,” he says, recognizing in the material his purest form of expression. His research stems from the belief that lampworking is still at the dawn of its evolution. By pushing the boundaries of technique and concept, he seeks to reach new levels of expressive complexity, even beyond traditional furnace glassblowing. An aesthete by nature, he draws inspiration from the vital movements of nature, the harmony of Murano proportions, and the symbolism of roots, metaphors of life, continuity, and belonging. Each creation is a balance between technique and instinct, tradition and vision, past and future.