Born in Venice in 1931, Alessandro Pianon attended the Architecture School in Venice and studied to become an architect and designer. In 1956 Pianon was hired by the Vetreria Vistosi glassworks initially to design the company logo. What started as a simple commercial enterprise ended up as a collaboration that produced numerous collections of glass for Vistosi. In 1962 Pianon started his own design studio and worked for several companies but his work best known from this period has to be the whimsical glass Murrine birds first produced by Vistosi in 1963.
