Ferai Codega, Salviati, 2019
©Foto Massimo Listri
Alberto Lago (Bassano del Grappa 1982)
Alberto Lago is an art director and designer from Venice, with interests ranging from industrial design to food design. His training spanned architecture, engineering and design, which has always been his great passion along with graphic design. He has lived and worked in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Stuttgart, until he settled in Venice, where he still lives. Since 2019, he has been the art director of Salviati in Murano. His creative process is characterized by the study of the working techniques of natural materials such as ceramic, fabric, glass, marble, metal and wood. A distinctive feature of Lago’s approach is the direct interaction with craftsmen in order to learn their techniques. These skills, used in symbiosis with new technologies, influence the creative process in a unique manner, encouraging experimentation with new paradigms in the culture of the artisanal product. Lago has received many national and international awards for the development of various categories of products, including furniture, food design, magazine covers, posters, illustrations. His work has been exhibited at Milan Design Week, Venice Glass Week, Venice Biennale and Industrie Museum in Chemnitz.
The suspension, table, floor and wall lamps of the “Ferai” collection are a combination of shapes, refined colors and workmanship that evoke the archetypes of the tradition of glass making in Murano. They are inspired by the oil lamps—called ferài in Venetian—introduced in 1732 by the Republic of Venice to illuminate the calli (streets) of the lagoon city. (Alberto Lago)