Berengo Studio was established in 1989 in the footsteps of Fucina degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini. Its goal was to make a comeback for glass and to take it out of the realm of craft and decorative art and to place it in the world of fine arts. In 2009 Berengo Studio achieved this goal with the first Glasstress exhibition, an innovative cultural initiative that marries the extraordinarily rich and enduring Venetian tradition of glassmaking with contemporary art.