Seguso Family
Cá dOro Glass has been operating since 1965 in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais.
Its founder, Mario Seguso, has his origin in Murano, an island of Venice recognized for the production of artistic glass, handmade and usually rich in colors. His family has maintained the glassmaking tradition since 1292, the same tradition that Mario brought to Brazil in 1954, when he came to do a temporary job at the invitation of Cristais Prado.
Designer and engraver trained at the Venice Art Institute, Mario Seguso was enchanted by Brazil and decided to produce in Poços de Caldas a sober line, with innovative design, more to the Brazilian taste.
The technique, however, is the same used in Murano, where from the fusion of a raw material - sand, calcium carbonate, sodium carbonate and other elements - which in ovens at high temperatures is transformed into a paste to be molded and blown in a magical process of creating decorative pieces.