Ghirò Studio

The founders of Ghirò Studio, Michele and Domenico Francesco Ghirò, draw their creative inspiration from flora and fauna, resulting in pieces that are as imaginative as they are refined. This father and son team is always looking for new forms and materials to use in their carefully produced pieces. Each object is created from blocks of crystal and glass in intense colors, particularly the shades of blue found in the waters of the Mediterranean, which are carefully sculpted into ripples, waves, globules and other biomorphic forms.

Michele Ghirò was born in 1957 in Bari, Italy. In his early twenties he moved to Milan, where he carried out a series of works with glass, honing his artistic skills and experimenting with its properties.

In 1996 he was hired by renowned glass designer Giorgio Berlini and became owner of the company when Berlini retired. Often called the “King of Glass,” Ghirò decided to create an academy dedicated to his favorite medium in 2004, preserving ancient glassmaking techniques by teaching apprentices.

Domenico Francesco Ghirò was born in Milan in 1992 and showed the same artistic talent and fascination for glass as his father. As a teenager he worked in his father's glass workshop and later attended a commercial art school, where he also learned computer graphics and design. His early work reflected his fascination with the art of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Later, he discovered the works of Max Ingrand, Gio Ponti, and the lighting company Fontana Arte, which led him to refocus his creative attention on modernist designs.