1928-2013 - Great glass Master, a member of a family that was significantly present in every phase of Murano history from the 17th century to the present day.

Ermanno Nason has collaborated with Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Kokoshka, Nag Arnoldi, Borsi, Jean Le Witt, Fred Fay, Krayer, Antun Motika and Bergamini, Guttuso, Braque, Verde, Hundertwasser, Fontana, Pignon, Bellini, Minguzzi, Goldoni, Carraro, Fulvio Bianconi, translating every new and unsual project in glass, and achieving excellence, in particular, in the "massello" technique, that is achieved by modeling the glass in the incandescent mass.

No master in Murano history knew how to sculpt glass like him, and no one has shown such sincere and convinced (and therefore convincing) openness towards modern, abstract, informal.

Ermanno often modified the traditional tools to his liking, drawing also from tools used in pottery, so to refine the most minute details and introduced a particular type of glass working technique which covers the surfaces of his creations with a corroded, etched layer, almost simulating the traces of land on an object recovered from an archaeological excavation: numerous experiments, often of negative result, led to the affirmation of this technique, which soon became the distinguishing mark of his work.