Designer

Roberta Brescianini & Alessia Fatone

Alessia Fatone

I’m an Italian glass lampworker, with a passion for manual arts since birth. My main artistic work is based on collaborating with designers and creative minds to materialize their own ideas.

I consider glass like a tailor considers fabrics: something not identifiable with an object but with a performing idea. My aim is to learn the teachings of tradition and to go beyond it, to give glass a new interpretation.

Meeting Roberta was due to many coincidences and strange connections of life resulting in a challenging and hard working experience and a honest friendship.

Roberta Brescianini

My great passions are, Kikyo, my wire-haired dachshund, Kendo, a Japanese martial art and, of course, Trollbeads, which I've been collecting for several years, fascinated by the magic that each bead contains. When I was a kid I made bracelets with small glass beads dreaming that they could light up in the night, so as to accompany my sleep and the sleep of all the world’s children. “Inner Glow”, with Trollbeads, is a dream come true.

The collaboration of Alessia Fatone, to create the first prototypes of the photoluminescent bead, was a very interesting and constructive experience for me.