Facial Expression

Designer Lucia Massari tackles the history of Murano elass head-on

- HANNAH MARTIN 

You practically live and breathe glass in Venice," designer Lucia Massari says of her hometown. "It's in the streets, in shop windows, in museums, in your friend's house-it's everywhere." She is referring to the age-old traditions of Murano, the fabled island where her mother grew up, her grandfather worked hand in hand with craft masters, and her grandmother made jewelry. Glass is also in her DNA.