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Salvadore hails from a family of glassworkers, and has always lived and worked in the Venetian Archipelago. At a very early age, he began following his grandfather into the furnaces of Murano, and from him he learned how to build the kilns. Afterwards, he spent four years with the glassmaster Loredano Rosin. Subsequently, he alternated collaborations with the venerable Venini, and Barovier and Toso glasshouses, with work in small craft studios throughout Murano. In 1978, Salvadore�s budding sense of innovation and experimentation led to a different kind of glasswork, as he began producing lampworked beads in the jewelry studio of his mother, Anna Mantoan. In 1987 he founded the studio Campagnol e Salvadore, which he still manages with two partners. In the studio, Salvadore is the glassmaster-at the kilns he built with his own hands-mixing lampwork and glassblowing techniques in new ways. Since the mid-to-late 1990s, Davide Salvadore has held master classes on modern glass at the Escuela del Vidrio in La Granja, Spain, and later at the �Cerfav� School of Glass in Vannes Le Chatel, France, where he also participated in the European Glass Symposium. He also serves as a founding member of the Centro Studio Vetro, the Murano-based, non-profit, cultural organization whose mission is to cultivate and promote glass art culture in Italy and abroad.
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