Afro Celotto and his two assistants, Carlo Tagliapietra and Luca Vidal, can be found during the week in their glass studio on the Island of Murano. Together they share the difficult, physical work of creating glass vessels. The molten glass in the furnace is in excess of 2200 degrees and the blowpipe can weigh 20 lbs or more — when there is no glass on the end of it. The team shares the difficult tasks so no one person has to endure all the scorching heat of the furnace or do all the heavy lifting.

Afro and Carlo have known each other since they were 5 or 6 as they went to the same schools and played together as children. Afro used to work with Luca at another studio and, when Afro decided to move to his own studio, it was a natural choice to invite the talented, young glassblower Luca to join the team.