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antiquerose123:
Sad...... :cry:


--- Quote from: Pinkspoons on June 05, 2011, 11:22:45 PM ---
Surely a self-defeating move akin to, say, knocking down a supermarket to make room for its shopper's cars?

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Ivo:
I think it is excellent that one declining economic activity is being supplemented with another viable one and I would not draw the conclusion that hotel development is pushing the glassmakers out. It is the way of the world, in someplaces the demise of manual glass industry went quicker than in others. Scotland, Belgium, Sweden were all too late in reconstructing the industry resulting in huge job losses. In Murano they at least realise that money must be made and if it is not in glass than it must be in tourism. Good on them.

Pinkspoons:
The article states that just this is happening:


--- Quote ---In Murano, administratively a district of Venice, discussion has centered on the “Sacca San Mattia,” a 7-hectare, or 17-acre, plot of abandoned land that is to be reconverted to industrial and artisanal use. Sacca refers to land that has emerged from the lagoon.

Murano’s municipal officials envision transporting some glass factories from the center to this northwestern spot.
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I've nothing against change and modernisation - but when a prestige industry sells on its historicity as much as its craftsmanship, it makes little sense to cut those very visceral historic links that the tourists come to see... just to fit more tourists in.

ardy:
The key part of this for all of us is to stop selling our better bits. If you have 20 years in front of you then you could make a fair amount from a art form that has departed.

Sad but it is for young people to define their future, baby boomers like me have had their time.

MuranoArtGlassChandeliers:
Hi All

The Murano Glass industry is still surviving and quite well. With the expanding wealth lf many emerging markets, things are on the up and up.  What people do not realise is that there are only a few furnaces which still actually operate on the Isalands of Murano, most have their actual operating furnaces on the mainland with showrooms on the island (maybe a demo furnace on site).  At last count, there were 176 showrooms scattered throughout the islands so competition is rife and this is where the drive to secure business, they sometimes resort to importing fake Chinese glass (only 1 furnace has been identified as doing this) to secure the tourist dollar and improve profit. 

I can assure you that the industry is still going strong and long may it continue to do so

Dean

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