Davide Salvadore was born in Murano in 1953. Descending from a family of glassworkers, he has always lived and worked on the Venetian island. At very early ages he began following his grandfather Antonio into the factories of Murano. In 1978 he began producing lamp-worked beads in his mother, Anna Mantoan's, jewelry studios; this would lead to a series of collaborations with fashion and design houses such as Roberta di Camerino, Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and Swatch. In 1987 he founded the studio "Campagnol e Salvadore" which he still manages today with two other partners. Within the studio, Davide worked as a glassmaster -at the kilns he built himself- mixing lampwork and furnace techniques in new ways. The result was instantly noteworthy, and over time Davide began working for prestigious glasshouses on Murano- Nason & Moretti, Vincenzo Nason, La Murrina, as well as for the Istituto d'Arte di Venezia and collaborating with designers and artists such as Andrea Anastasio, Giorgio Vigna, Florys Meydam, Frank Borst and Massimo Nordio. Davide Salvadore is also a founding member of the "Centro Studio Vetro" of Murano, a non-profit cultural organization founded in 1997 to cultivate and promote, in Italy and abroad, the culture and art of glass. "Centro Studio Vetro" publishes the International magazine "Vetro".
Additional images of Davide Salvadore's work can be viewed at the Traver Gallery.
