Schiavon was born in 1971 in Murano--the true site of the "Venetian" glass world. He started working in glass as a young man at some some of the smaller "furnaces" on Murano at the beginning of the 1980s. During these years he worked together with some well-known glass blowers of the island. In 1998, Schiavon began to work in his father's factory, where, with the collaboration of the glass master Claudio Zama, he began to combine different techniques that he has learned in the previous years, creating a new line of high-quality sculptural work characterized by his own unique and peculiar style. The technique that distinguishes them primarily consists in the composition of multicolour glass canes heated together at 750°C and then fused and blown with clear crystal. The majority of these art pieces are then hand-ground by diamond wheel. The precise patterns and shapes of the works are the outcome of long experience, immersion in a deep and complext tradition, and the artist's unceasing creativity.