In Common With and Laguna~B debut Murano-glass Lido Series

In Common With’s Lido Series arrived on May 6 with a tightly edited mix of sconces, flush mounts, the modular Cosmos Chandelier, and two drinking vessels, a debut that reads less like a one-off lighting drop than the start of a collectible design partnership. The New York studio is treating the project with enough ambition to call it the first chapter in an ongoing collaboration with Venice-based Laguna~B, and that matters because the most compelling luxury gifts often come from a series that can grow into a room, then into a home.

The craft story is the point. Each Lido shade and diffuser is blown in Murano by master glassmakers, then finished and assembled in In Common With’s Brooklyn workshop, a split-production model that gives the pieces both Venetian lineage and a contemporary edge. The series draws on goti de fornasa, the improvisational use of leftover glass to make swirling drinking vessels, and murrine, the technique that layers and stretches colored glass into canes before they are sliced into patterned cross-sections. That combination makes the objects feel especially giftable: the drinking vessels offer a more intimate entry point, while the sconces and Cosmos Chandelier carry the kind of scale that turns an anniversary, new home, or milestone renovation into a design statement.

The collaboration also connects two companies with real history behind them. In Common With was founded in 2018 and says its catalog now spans six collections, nine series, and more than 150 products, a sign that founders Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung are building toward a fuller home universe. Laguna~B was founded in 1994 by Marie Brandolini, and Marcantonio Brandolini took over in 2017, keeping production in Murano while developing new collections. The Venetian glass tradition itself dates back centuries, commonly traced to the 1291 decree that moved furnaces from Venice to Murano to reduce fire risk and protect expertise. That lineage gives Lido a built-in desirability that goes beyond decoration: it is a collaboration with enough heritage to feel collectible now, and enough room to expand into tabletop and decorative objects later.