Angelo Brotto 1914– 2002, was a venetian designer and artist that was better known for his work in glass.  He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1941. Immediately thereafter the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned him to paint frescoes in Montenegro.  During his career he won many design and artistic awards such as the ones in Bergamo, Cremona, Suzzara, and Verona, as well as the first exhibition of engravings in Rome.
Brotto collaborated with the Murano glass maker Esperia during the 1960s-70s, and during this collaboration he became a prolific lighting designer. His lamps, in particular, were quickly acclaimed for capturing the sensitivity of the time, creating playful and artistic modern shapes, and for breaking with the traditional ways of glassmaking in Murano.