STUDIOSOFT is a company based in Italy specializing in the wholesale production of hand made top quality glass jewelry. STRAVAGANTE is our brand and our jewels are created by fire, the fire of our passion for beauty and for tradition of the original works of Murano glass in a whirlwind of fashion creations made of crystal and precious metals like gold and silver. Our beaded jewelry is made from glass and 925 sterling silver by skilled artisans and beadmakers who follow the ancient tradition of the Venetian and Italian art glass. Lamp worked Pandora style beads, glass bracelets, glass necklaces, glass pendants, glass rings and charm beads with millefiori inserts are only a few examples of our production. Our glassmaking facilities consist of over twenty glass laboratories based in Murano-Venice, in Tuscany and Umbria regions, and in other areas of North Italy.
Since the beginning of time, humans have made use of creating ornamental glass jewelry items for their personal adornment. Stravagante developed a whole range of unique beads for Pandora by trying out and perfecting new techniques in the lampworking. Stravagante adopted a manual production, in short series, of technically and formally refined Italian jewelry.
The exquisite process of lampworking absolutely fascinated in the centuries with the results obtained in the artistic creation of glass jewels. Blowing glass jewellery is a magical art, it is a fascinating and captivating sight, there is no jewelry Murano glass artisan who does not dream of blowing a vitreous mass, trapping the air inside. The glass jewelry making consists in the modeling of semi-finished form of tubes and rods with different diameters and thicknesses. Firstly the heat softens the rod using a horizontal flame fueled by methane gas and oxygen (or air), it is then modeled using small instruments in forms of human or animal or vegetable figures to get a wide range of shapes. The beads of jewelry Murano glass are obtained by wrapping the glass melted around a copper wire or iron coated with refractory material.
This Italian jewelry art was developed in Venice in a progressive manner from the thirteenth century and until the eighteenth century: the fame of the Venetian goldsmiths grew significantly and there are many historical anecdotes that give account of their abilities. In Venice at that time there was already a "Mariegola" (i.e. the constitutive law of a School of Art and Craft) and all objects in Venice were obliged to have the stamp with the lion of St. Mark. Before Stravagante became a jewelry brand renowned throughout the world, Studiosoft company introduced its first charms for Pandora bracelets equipped with silver core during the 2004 year and soon became very popular in Europe.
