Felicia Ferrone designs objects the way architects design buildings, negotiating gravity, mass, and form until something feels both inevitable and surprising.

Trained as an architect, she founded fferrone in Milan in 2001. The work comes from a design discipline that works backward from ideas to form rather than from a glassmaking tradition. Simple forms, classical proportions, no adornment, and not leaning on existing forms.

Each piece is handcrafted by master glassblowers in the Czech Republic using flameworking techniques, without the use of molds, and impossible to replicate at scale. The forms they produce are a direct result of new production techniques pushing the boundary of what is possible.

Michelin-starred restaurants and film directors, including the productions of John Wick and Star Wars, have reached for fferrone when objects need to be distinct and make an impression. Several of Ferrone's designs are in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.