Category: Glassware
René Lalique: French Art Nouveau Glass and Jewelry
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
The glassware of René Lalique veers from the course of the preceding discussion. Emile Gallé, the Daum brothers, and Gabriel Argy-Rousseau each struggled with the question of mechanization in order to produce affordable glass for the masses. However, the individual craftsman primarily dominated in their productions, receiving some aid from semi-industrial practices such as the…
Depression Glass
| November 21, 2011 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Learning to live on little or nothing was the way of life for many people during the Great Depression. Manufacturers such as Federal, MacBeth-Evans, Hocking Glass companies found a way to bring a little cheer into some very dreary days by manufacturing the product we now know as Depression glass. This mass-produced glassware was of…
Collecting Antique Glass
| November 23, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Beginners are easily bewildered by different prices asked for essentially similar pieces of glass, for the price is determined as much by where you shop as what you buy. With patience and plenty of luck, bargains can be found anywhere, but in order to obtain specific types of glass, most collectors realize they have to…
Glassmaking
| November 23, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Mother earth made the very first glass. Obsidian, a product of volcanoes, was utilized in olden days to make knives and arrowheads with razor-sharp chipped sides. To produce glass, sand is melted in a furnace rather than a volcano, but basically the material is the same. The methods of glassmaking that gradually evolved in Mesopotamia…
Murano Style Glass
| November 23, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Although a lot of traditional Muranese methods are used today in the same manner they always have, some have been changed and are utilized in the modern idiom by avant-garde designers with an eye for the past. One particular method is the murrine. A design is created up on the surface of a section of…
20th-Century Glass – Buying, Selling, and Collecting (DK Collector’s Guides)
| November 23, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Combining beauty, delicacy, and exquisite design, glass is one of the most exciting media of the last century and is now a highly popular collectible. Written by world-renowned expert Judith Miller and specialist consultants, DK Collector’s Guides: 20th-century Glass explores this fascinating field, from Art Nouveau in the 1900s through to the modern Scandinavian designs…
Depression Amber Glass
| October 3, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Depression glass can be recognized by three characteristics, its light-weight body, a delicate impressed pattern and the pale colors it was made in. As a reaction to the heavy, cut glass pieces made before World War I, glass makers developed molds for pressed glass for the machine presses. Less glass was used for each piece,…
Vicke Lindstrand
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Vicke Lindstrand was born in 1904 in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1928, after studying commercial art for a year, he was hired by glass artist Simon Gate to work at the Orrefors glassworks. Lindstrand added new artistic dimensions to the already famous Orrefors glass with his unique deigns and revitalization of classic forms and techniques. Incoming…
