Barbara Maggiolo was born in Venice (1971) where she attended the Architecture University and the International Graphics School. After this she began to collaborate with different offices and firms taking care of graphics, show-room, fitting-out and image consultancy both in Italy and broad. She started to work for Vistosi in 2002 as the manager of firm image strategy. She has started to learn the glass working techniques. From here the passion for glass, seen as the object lighting and giving birth to her designer activity.