Francesco Perruccio on Fragility as a Design Project

Venetian designer Francesco Perruccio (b. 1994) discusses his project Fragile in an interview with Collezione da Tiffany. Trained at IUAV, Politecnico di Milano, and Murano glass furnaces, Perruccio creates glass slabs that become narrative surfaces, incorporating words, engravings, and signs. The work blends traditional Murano techniques (casting, slumping, collage) with contemporary experimentation, positioning itself between art, collectible design, and material research. Perruccio addresses the risk of fragility becoming a market label, his approach to Murano tradition (working within the perimeter but shifting its thresholds), and the productive ambiguity between art and collectible design. He emphasizes that the material itself prevents rhetoric: glass either works or breaks. He would sacrifice formal freedom before artisanal control or conceptual complexity if market pressures demanded serialization.