MURANO MOVES

In Common With Work in Murano For Their New Collection of Lighting and Glassware

In Common With’s Murano glass Cosmos chandelier and Up Down sconces from the Lido collection in Aster glass with blackened brass hardware at Carlo Scarpa’s Casa Tabarelli near Bolzano, Italy. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

Murano glass was historically the province of Venetian doges and church commissions — objects made to signal power and outlast empires. For In Common With, the New York design studio founded in 2018 by Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung, it’s something closer to a working material than a precious relic — a technique to actually be used, not just conserved. “Each piece is a kind of conversation,” Hung has said of the studio’s collaborations — and that ethos has driven their practice from the start. Working closely with small ateliers, the pair has spent seven years figuring out, as Hung puts it, “how to scale craft without losing the sense that someone's hands made it.”

Their new Lido series — sconces, flush mounts, a pendant, and the modular Cosmos chandelier — was made in partnership with Laguna~B, a Venetian glass atelier rooted in the island’s living glassmaking tradition. It’s the first time In Common With has worked in Murano, and it shows an ambition that goes beyond the decorative. Two techniques anchor the collection. The first, goti de fornasa, has its roots in improvisational workshop culture — glassmakers using leftover material to create vessels that no one planned, in colors and forms that couldn’t be repeated. The second, murrine, is more architectural: colored glass layered and stretched into rods, the pattern only becoming visible in cross-section. Each piece balances hand-blown glass with carefully considered metal hardware, precision and spontaneity held in the same object.

Named after Venice’s famous beach, the Lido series is available exclusively through In Common With at Quarters, the brand’s sprawling Tribeca loft, where showroom, concept store, and gathering place merge into one. Since opening in 2024, it has operated as a kind of edited proposal for how to live — vintage furniture sourced from across Europe, rare books, pantry items, works by fellow artists, all of it chosen with the same intentionality the studio brings to its lighting. Everything there, as Ozemba says, “has a reason to be there.” The Lido pieces, including a limited run of drinking glasses made using the same Murano techniques, are no exception.

In Common With’s Murano glass Orb surface mount in Daisy with pewter at Casa Gallo. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Orb pendant in Goto Bianco with blackened brass at Casa Tabarelli. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Orb pendant in Daisy with blackened brass at Casa Gallo. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Up Down sconce in Chamomile with blackened brass at Casa Tabarelli. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Up Down sconce in Goto Bianco with patina brass at Casa Gallo. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Orb pendant in Goto Bianco with blackened brass at Casa Tabarelli. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Orb surface mount in Goto Bianco in the process of being blown in Murano in collaboration with Laguna~B. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Cosmos chandelier in Daisy with blackened brass at Casa Tabarelli. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Cosmos chandelier in Chamomile with pewter at Casa Gallo. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Murano glass Cosmos chandelier in Goto Bianco with polished nickel at Casa Gallo. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Lido collection in the process of being made in Murano in collaboration with Laguna~B. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Lido collection in the process of being made in Murano in collaboration with Laguna~B. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.

In Common With’s Up Down scone in Daisy in the process of being made in Murano in collaboration with Laguna~B. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common

In Common With’s Lido collection in the process of being made in Murano in collaboration with Laguna~B. Photography by William Jess Laird courtesy of In Common With.