Bisazza, founded in 1956 by Renato Bisazza in Montecchio Maggiore (in the province of Vicenza), is one of the best-known global glass mosaic brands. Furniture and furnishing accessories (produced since 2006) joined the brand's ornamental mosaics for interiors and exteriors. The company's more recent collections explore new decorative possibilities of materials like wood, marble and ceramics. Internationally renowned designers have collaborated with Bisazza. Today the company has several single-brand shops in London, Milan, Paris and New York and a distribution network of almost three thousand shops worldwide. The company was founded with the name of Vetricolor, like the first product - a highly resistant 20x20 cm coloured glass paste tessera, obtained through an industrial process, suitable for the exteriors of public, residential and commercial buildings. The success of Vetricolor set the stage for the brand's commercial expansion worldwide, supported - starting in the 1980s - by digital technologies and software to process designs and translate images into mosaic pixels. In 1989, after taking the name Bisazza, the company began to offer interior design products, when Alessandro Mendini became the brand art director, from 1995 to 1999. The baton then passed to Fabio Novembre. Collaborations began with many designers, including Romeo Gigli, Ettore Sottsass, and Studio Job in addition to Tom Dixon, the Campana brothers, Aldo Cibic, Barnaba Fornasetti, Stefano Giovannoni, Tricia Guild, India Mahdavi, Alessandro Mendini, Paola Navone, Fabio Novembre, Emilio Pucci, David Rockwell, Patricia Urquiola and Marcel Wanders. Bisazza Home, founded in 2006, is a collection of furniture and furnishing accessories. The Bisazza Bagno bathroom furniture line came out in 2011.