Design&Love for detailsis our Heart
Casarialto line started in 2008, as a consequence of global taste and vision: a work around tableware and home accessories, to gradually define and deepen Catherine’s great passion for glass-making. By moving near Venice she met glass masters with whom she started a straight collaboration interlacing her modern and practical spirit with their hundred-years old roots of Venetian expertise.
Casarialto home accessories are based on the concept of creating products that express high quality, uniqueness and have a useful purpose incentivating small industries to produce. The Veneto region is rich in craftsmanship.
Tradition mixed with innovation and the Italian flexible approach to projects are incredible assets for the development of small and special productions.
Casarialto Glass
handcrafted Operasby great Venetian artisans
Each of our glass creations is produced exclusively by Murano glass masters. Specialized Glass Artisans each of whom in a different processing technique.
We guarantee that each product is blown and finished by hand, presenting small differences for the same article, proof of craftsmanship.
Casarialto glass is thin and light, but resistant to high and low temperatures.
“In my vision of the table, glasses are the key elements and glass is a fascinating material to work with.”
Birth of the Venetianand Murano laboratories
The thirteenth century saw Venice and Murano become the Italian centers for the creation of glass. The Italian authorities made various moves to safeguard and protect the sector, developing it and making it a flourishing sector on a national level. At the second half of this century, a glassmakers’ association was created. In 1271 a law was approved to prevent the importation of foreign glass and the employment of foreign workers in Venetian territory. After twenty years, the island of Murano became the center of Italian glass processing. All glass companies were relocated on the island. All glass factories were ordered to the island. By 1296, glass makers were deliberately raised to status, and encouraged to marry into wealthy families. This in turn resulted in a competition between the Murano glass factories (which were almost exclusively family run).
Reflecting on ThePeak of Venetian Glass
The technique of blowing glass to create functional and decorative objects, was born in the Phoenician era. Widespread in the world, the Venetian technique – in particular that of Murano – develops to the present day. From the thirteenth century, Murano became the reference center for blown glass up until today. The Venetian glass industry began to rise to the 15th century, when the master maker Angelo Barovier discovered the “crystal” process by adding manganese to what was then called soda glass. It automatically became very popular, particularly for production and export of mirrors throughout Europe. The popular ‘Lattimo’ – a white colored glass that imitated porcelain – was also created and produced soon after, again by Barovier.
The Designer
Catherine Urban
She lives between Venice and Milan, after spending most of her life and career between Europe, Asia and South America. She studied at the French Fashion Institute in Paris, and worked afterwards for the world’s leading luxury brands Chanel and Louis Vuitton for over 12 years. Those years have granted Catherine a precious know-how linked to the culture of luxury, care and taste for details, an expectation of top quality, beauty and perfect finishings.
Inherent to Catherine’s ‘marque de fabrique’, her brand is also the discovery of traditional and specific know-hows from the countries she lived in (especially Italy) and making these available to her customers.
Catherine works strictly with artisans, experimenting always new kind of techniques. She takes inspiration from her long working experience and deep interest for handcraft work. She deals often with new production technique and she sources from the vast Venetian basin of handcraft experts.
For this reason Casarialto gives also the possibility to customize products and works already with Luxury restaurant and hotels and private residences. Offering high end products, studied with customer in each details, we grant the satisfaction of every request in term of product quality and quantity.
The artisans long experience, together with Catherine idea, sometimes creates real work of arts. Every piece of Casarialto is handmade in each detail. Centuries of work knowledge and tests, inside a glass product.
Modern spirit rooted in hundred-years of Venetian expertise. Light and very resistant borosilicate, for everyday products.
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