LUDOVICO DIAZ DE SANTILLANA

Ludovico Diaz de Santillana was born in Roma in 1931.  He graduated in architecture in Venice and he started teching at the university.

He married Anna Venini, Paolo’s daughter; from the holder’s death in 1985 he became the director of the Venini, then he also worked for EOS, for which he designed important collections.

Ludovico de Santillana gave a great expansion to the glass in architecture and he opened Venini’s furnaces and Murano’s secrets to the young americans, with a sensitive equilibrium between crafts, design and industry.

He died in 1989.