Barovier, Salizzada San Samuele 3216 (San Marco). Art gallery dealing in work from glass-blowers from all over the world. This place displays what is perhaps the most inventive and beautiful glass in Venice, and - contrary to appearances - the stuff is for sale, albeit at very high prices.

Barovier & Tosio, Fondamenta Vetrai 28. Not to be confused with the gallery listed above, this is a family-run firm which can trace its roots back to the fourteenth century. Predominantly traditional designs.

Berengo Fine Arts, Fondamenta Vetrai 109a, Fondamenta Manin 68 and Salizzada San Samuele 3337 (San Marco). This firm has pioneered a new approach to Venetian glass manufacture, with foreign artists' designs being vitrified by Murano glass-blowers.

Domus Vetri d'Arte, Fondamenta Vetrai 82. Stocks work by the major postwar Venetian glass designers, artists such as Barbini, Lino Tagliapietra, Ercole Moretti and Carlo Moretti.

L'Isola, Salizzada S. Mois� 1468, San Marco. Chiefly a showcase for work by Carlo Moretti, the doyen of modernist Venetian glass artists.

Murano Collezioni, Fondamenta Manin 1c. Outlet for work from the Venini, Moretti and Barovier & Toso factories.

Penso Davide, Fondamenta Cavour 48. The jewellery sold here is both manufactured and designed by the firm, which specializes in giving a new slant to traditional Murano styles.

Seguso, Piazza San Marco 143 and San Marco Frezzeria 1230-6. Traditional style and quality Murano glass, much of it created by proprietor Archimede Seguso, who is now in his eighties.

Venini, Fondamenta Vetrai 50 (Murano) and Piazzetta dei Leoncini 314 (San Marco). One of the more adventurous producers, Venini often employs designers from other fields of the applied arts.

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