Having grown up on the canals, Lino took inspiration for the Endeavor and Ala series from the boats and birds that fill Murano’s landscape. The designs themselves, graceful and simple curves of glass, developed from Lino’s admiration for Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, a series of Italian comics that chronicle the adventures of a sailor. In these illustrations, birds and boats are depicted in a pared-down style, which Lino admired and sought to recreate in glass.

Carso is a rocky limestone territory. The limestone gets eroded by the rivers in the area, so The Maestro wanted to recreate the same geographical environment with the blue pattern of the murrine, symbolizing the river flowing through this land. Lino has expressed his appreciation for this territory, its colors and its beauty.

Inspired by the vibrant colors and prints of West African wax fabrics, the Africa series features bold murrine and bright colors.

After watching an exhibition in Massachusetts, the Maestro was fascinated by the beauty of the majestic panels he saw there. That inspired him to create Tornado, a panel focused on movement, on the idea of chaos. This panel was firstly blown and secondly cut and laid flat. This technic is actually used in Murano to create windows and mirrors.

Named for the floral pattern of its murrina, Florencia vesseles are created by layering and folding together differentcolors of flat rib-bon cane in order to create a petal-like structure within the rod of stretched glass. Once sliced into small pieces, the murrine are laid out on a heating stone and grouped tightly together. When laying out the murrine, Lino can assess how the glass pieces will stretch and shape during the blowing process.