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With tastes du jour being so sterile and colourless, the Borowskis are definitely swimming against the mainstream with their artistic, vivid glass objects.
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Pawel, Stanislaw und Wiktor Borowski
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A man of superlatives: the interior designer and architect Dale Chihuly, has received countless awards for his glass creations, which are included in over two hundred museum collections world-wide.
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Dale Chihuly Persian Set
Baskets
Ikebana
Floats
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Together with Harvey Littleton, Erwin Eisch founded the international studio glass movement; he was one of the first artists to employ glass as a medium of artistic expression and give it world-wide acceptance.
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Erwin Eisch
Eisch Cube
Glass Sculptures
Telephone
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He united fine art with a deep sense of spirituality to create some truly distinctive works of art. Next to silver and bronze
his medium of
choice was "Lucite", a clear acrylic glass, using it to create what he called "sculptures of light".
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Frederick E. Hart
Breath Of Life
Duet
The Cross of The Millennium
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One of the glass designer's rarities from 2002 is this masterpiece called "America's Cup",
which was exhibited in celebration of his 40-years occupation for Steuben Glass. Houston was inspired by the
150th birthday of the "America's Cup Race".
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James Houston
Handcrafted Glass Objects
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René Lalique is famous for his wonderful glass objects, made of translucent, frosted and coloured glass.
His broad creative spectrum spanned car radiator figures, mirrors, decorative vases, bowls made of opalescent glass,
and his legendary perfume flacons.
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René Lalique
Car Radiator Figures
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His aim is not to please. His aim is to make his dreams come true. An artist continuously in search of new melting methods which will enable him to capture light in glass and focus it on one single point.
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Robert Pierini
Outstanding Contemporary Glass Objects
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Sottsass created a whole range of glass objects for R.S.V.P., including vases, bowls, candelabras,
etageres and many other attractive objects. What all of these one-off pieces have in common are the coloured glass sheets,
which are either cut by hand or with a special machine developed specifically for R.S.V.P. which uses a jet of water to cut the glass.
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R.S.V.P.
Sottsass collection
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The speciality of the two artists are heavy glass objects which are made using the so-called "Graal" technique,
a technique which was first developed in 1917 at "Orrefors" by Simon Gate and Edward Hald and which is considered
the successor to the "Gallé" technique.
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Arthur Zirnsack and Hanne Dreutler Glass Objects in Graal Technique
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For her, glass painting is the most fascinating way of giving a room shape and atmosphere. "Poetic light and colour" is what the master glass painter skilfully creates on high-quality glass in glass factories in Germany, France and the USA.
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Susanne Wolf
Front Door "Cat"
Andalusian Landscape
African Landscape
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