stemglasses - Bormioli Luigi SpA

“
ART IS LONG AND TIME IS
FLEETING”:
THUS SPOKE
THE GREAT LONGFELLOW.
It is not easy to be content with only one life, even
if lived in an artistic way. How many fathers hoped
that their children, generation after generation,
could follow in their footsteps and continue their
job. This hope was not always based on mere
patrimonial reasons or on subjective existential
reasons. Many of these fathers, sharing Hegel’s
school of thought, felt that their work, being in
Art’s service, is never accomplished for good.In
accordance with Life, Life with capital L, which
carries on never-ending beyond individual lives.
If we truly believe in the Spirit that becomes
History: then which more convincing testimony of evolution than the one of glass craftsmanship which,
continually confi rmed itself and at the same time totally transformed throughout the centuries?
Around the year one thousand, in the area of Altare, near Genova, a district of “magistri vitriorum”
(glass masters) was found, in addition to the renowned Venetians one. Two maritime republics: the
glass was blown where the sea is with the sand.
These intrepid masters encouraged their boldness for adventure relying in what today we would call
know-how.
Amongst these masters the Bormioli soon became prominent. Every now and then, they would
change their name in Bormiol, they would pack their belongings and, as ancient commuters, they
would go to France, experiencing a different type of Europe, marked by opportunities for artists and
craftsmen.
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