Sophie Bille Brahe heads to Murano

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Danish jeweller Sophie Bille Brahe is recalling her visit earlier this year to Murano, the small island off Venice, to work on her new collection of glassware. “You start very early in the morning, because otherwise it gets too hot to work later; you get the boat from Venice and the water is all sparkly – like shiny glass,” she says. “Then when you’re in the…