Say the words ‘Murano’ and ‘glass’ and rococo cornucopia chandeliers – all gelato hues and elaborate curlicues – come to mind. We all have our baroque moments, but a stroll around the narrow streets of Venice can be headache-inducing; all those shiny glass bibelots like sickly boiled sweets vying for attention.

WonderGlass, established a decade ago by father-and-son team Maurizio and Christian Mussati, is bringing some calm back to the Venetian outpost of Murano, where the city’s glassmakers have toiled over their furnaces since the government ordered them to move there in the year 1291 to reduce the risk of fire spreading through the main island of the archipelago.