Archimede Seguso (Murano, December 17, 1909 – Murano, September 6, 1999) was an Italian entrepreneur and master glassmaker. Archimede Seguso was one of the most famous Venetian glassmakers, distinguished in the processing of heavy glass. He began working as a master at 17 years old in the furnace where his father was a member, until the crisis of 1929. Afterwards, Archimede Seguso founded his own glassware company which became his family’s and transformed into Soffieria Barovier Seguso & Ferro and then in 1933 in Seguso Vetri D'Arte, a company that left its mark in the development of glass in the following decades. He collaborated with important artistic director and designer Flavio Poli. With this family glassworks, Archimede Seguso separated in 1944, founding his own Vetreria Artistica Archimede Seguso. Here he managed to strive forward by reusing ancient blowing techniques and he transformed the eighteenth-century filigree technique by reworking it and inventing famous filigrees such as ' ‘Merletti’ ‘Piume’, etc, as well as experimenting with other techniques with a varied colour palette. He experimented and made glass of great personality with overlapping colours and strong chromatic contrasts with the “Sommerso” (submerged) technique Participations at the Venice Biennale of art: XX Biennale (1936) Bullicante bowl shaped vase XXI Biennale (1938) acid etched glass sculpture "Hippopotamus" XXV Biennale (1950) iridescent nude in submerged crystal. XXVI Biennale (1952) Group of works in "lace"; Group of works in "ribbon pattern". XXVII Biennale (1954) group of works "Festoons"; group of works “Small spirals”; group of works "Milk white compositions". XXVIII Biennale (1956) group of works "Feathers" XXIX Biennale (1958) Group of works "Black and white pattern"; three multicolour lamps; Stratified cups in alabaster glass. XXX Biennale (1960) group of works "Blue". XXXI Biennale (1962) group of works "Continuous threads" XXXII Biennale (1964) group of works "Feathers" XXXIII Biennale (1966) Group of works "overlapping colours"; Polychrome sculpture "The game" with Luigi Rincicotti presented above the swimming pool of the Venice Pavilion. XXXIV Biennale (1968) group of works "starred filigree"; group of works "A wire onion" XXXVI Biennale (1972) group of works in "Optical Art"; group of works “Spinati”, petal vases. He exhibited his works at the Biennale of Venice, the Triennale of Milan, Liège and many other exhibitions. In 1982 he participated in the exhibition of the Thousand Years of Glass in Venice at Palazzo Grassi and at the Museo Correr, with several sculptures. In 1989 he was dedicated a solo exhibition in New York at Tiffany & Co. In 1991, the City of Venice hosted at Palazzo Ducale "Archimede Seguso’s glasses", the only living master until then to have a personal exhibition in the Doge's Palace in Venice. He passed in 1999 and left behind many of his works, as well as the indelible mark of his creativity, in many museums of contemporary art around the world Tracked shipping