Gaze at gorgeous Italian glass (©Houzz Editorial Staff; writer, design enthusiast, reader, softball player.)

Since the calice a spirale (spiral chalice) seen here debuted at Venice’s first design festival in 1895, the glass creations coming out of Murano, Italy, have set the standard for artisanal glass. This exhibition focuses on some 200 objects and corresponding drawings from the Holz Collection in Berlin, one of the world’s most important private collections of Murano glass. The exhibition highlights a large selection of glasses, which not only set standards in Milan and Venice but also changed the concept of modern glass internationally. 

Colorful pieces such as this vase created in a Murano glass studio in 1952 are among the more than 200 pieces on display.