While earlier modern glass masters such as Rene Lalique, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallee, Carlo Scarpa and Paul Venini were sought after for important glass collections, Beginning in the late 20th century, glass started to become highly collectable as art.  The term Glass art is used when the glass objects created are not primarily utilitarian but are intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement.  Specific approaches include stained glass, lampworking, glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and, most notably, glass blowing. As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to the highest levels. Glass from Murano (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention. While there are now more hotshops and glass artists working in Seattle, Murano is still held as the real birthplace of modern glass art.