he began working very young as a glass decorator. 'mistakes are what
I like best' he said, beginning with one thing and finishing with another, tackling the resistance of the material and drawing a lesson from it. what remains is an object of inexhaustible fascination.
the glassmaking technique developed by fulvio bianconi is playful, whimsical... to design an object, to conceive of a piece of architecture in glass, prior to being some sort of flight of metaphysics, is a simple,
carefully considered gesture.