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Discover the Bonhams Prize-winning designs from Barbini Specchi Veneziani at Venice Glass Week, by designers including Martino Gamper and Bethan Laura Wood.

While Murano's glassmaking sector has been notoriously male-dominated for centuries, its new wave of glassmakers and designers is young, inventive and female.

Known as the Floating City, or La Serenissima, Venice carries with it an air of mystery and romanticism unlike any other city in Europe or elsewhere. The world has celebrated Venice’s unexpected beauty for centuries, which extends to the city’s most famous art form — glass. Modern-day tourists visit the city’s factories to see lively glass blowing demonstrations, and its shops are filled with glass trinkets that make wonderful souvenirs. The story of how Venice became the mecca for…