Glassmaker

William Blenko (1854 – 1926) and Blenko Glassware

On: March 5, 2023

Tagged: British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, glass, glassmaker, glassware, Glassware Designer

Blenko established the first American factory to produce sheet glass for stained glass windows. Blenko’s early successes include providing glass for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The White House has a collection of Blenko table ware, used periodically. Wayne Husted pioneered the concept of “architectural scale” designs. Blenko’s “Historic Period” begins with Anderson in 1946 and includes work of Nickerson up to 1974.Read More →

Clyne Farquharson (1906 – 1978) British glassware designer

On: January 6, 2023

Tagged: British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, glass designer, glassmaker, glassware

In the 1930s, Farquharson was a major contributor to the design of British glassware. His documented career in glass began in 1935 with Arches, an engraved design on glass produced by John Walsh Walsh, where he produced other cut-crystal glassware as its head designer 1935—51. Read More →

Arttu Brummer (1891 – 1951) Finnish designer

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: Design, factory, finland, finnish, finnish design, finnish designer 🇫🇮, glass, Glassware Designer

Arttu Brummer was a Finnish interior and glassware designer. Brummer set up his own interior design office in 1913. Read More →

Simon Gate (1883 – 1945) Swedish artisan and designer

On: December 31, 2022

Tagged: glass, glass designer, glass factory, glass swedish, glassmaker, glassware, Glassware Designer, glassworker, stained glass, swedish, swedish design 🇸🇪, swedish designer 🇸🇪

Gate began his long affiliation with the Swedish glassmaking firm Orrefors in 1916. He worked as an artistic director and built the firm foundation for Sweden’sSweden’s substantial modern glass industry, alongside Edvard Hald, Vicke Lindstrand, Knut Bergqvist, and others.Read More →

Edvard Hald (1883-1980) Swedish Sculptor

On: December 1, 2022

Tagged: glassware, Glassware Designer, swedish design 🇸🇪, swedish designer 🇸🇪

Edward Hald (17 September 1883 – 4 July 1980) was a Swedish sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.Read More →

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Max Ingrand (1908 – 1969) French artist and decorator

On: October 1, 2022

Tagged: french decor, French Design, French Designer 🇫🇷

Maurice Max-Ingrand (1908–1969) was a French artist and stained glass artist. He was captured by the Nazis during World War II but returned to France in 1945. In 1968, he established Verre Lumière, one of the first businesses to manufacture halogen lamps.Read More →

Soichiro Sasakura (b.1949) Japanese Glassware Designer

On: September 27, 2022

Tagged: Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

He worked for Sasaki Glass, for which he designed the 1988 San Marino glassware range.Read More →

French designer Georges Dunaime was from France. Between 1921 and 1927, five agents worked to sell Dunaime's work. He designed lighting for E. Etling. Gagnon, the designer and engraver, made most of his work, which included table lamps, torchéeres, and chandeliers made of silver, gilt, and patinated bronze with shades made of cloth, cut glass, quartz, marble, and alabaster. He made many different kinds of lighting for the ocean liner Paris in He made many different kinds of lighting for the ocean liner Paris in 1921. In 1922, a show of his work was put on at Gagneau. He won first prise in a competition held by the Union of Bronze Manufacturers in 1922. He also won first prise (for a table lamp) and an honourable mention (for a piano lamp) at the Great Lighting Competition in Paris in 1924. Work shown at the booths of Gagnon, Gagneau, Bézault, and Christofle at the 1925 Paris "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes."

Georges Dunaime – Art Deco -French Designer

On: September 19, 2022

Tagged: Art deco, French Design, French Designer 🇫🇷

Georges Dunaime designed lighting for E. Etling, the designer and engraver. His work included table lamps, torchéeres, and chandeliers made of silver, gilt, and patinated bronze with shades made of cloth, cut glass, quartz, marble, and alabaster.Read More →

Jacques Gruber (1870 – 1936) French Stained Glass artist and designer

On: August 15, 2022

Tagged: French, French Design, French Designer 🇫🇷, glass, glass designer, glassmaker, Glassware Designer, stained glass

Jacques Gruber (1870-1936) was a French stained-glass artist, designer, and teacher, born Sundhausen, Alsace. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gustave Moreau. He was distinguished as a designer in the Art Nouveau idiom. Read More →

Masakichi Awashima (1914 – 1979) Japanese Glassware Designer

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: glass, glassware, Glassware Designer, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, Paris

After studying design at the Japan Art School in Tokyo, Awashima worked for artisan Kozo Kagami, who had studied Western glass methods in Germany from 1935 to 1946. Read More →

Pavel Hlava (1924 – 2003) Czech Glassware Designer

On: August 7, 2022

Tagged: Czech Design 🇨🇿, Czech Designer 🇨🇿, glassware, Glassware Designer

He was best known for his cut and engraved glass. Hlava enhanced a number of innovative technologies, both in terms of conception and manufacturing. These featured melted silver leaf and other materials, as well as skeleton moulds for shaping glass.Read More →

Hiroshi Yamano – Exquisite Japanese Glass Designs

On: August 1, 2022

Tagged: glass, glass designer, glassmaking, glassware, Glassware Designer, glassworker, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Kiroshi Yamano is a Japanese Glass Designer. He studied at the Tokyo Glass Crafts Institute to 1984 and Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, to 1989. Read More →

Aimo Okkolin (1917 – 1982) Finnish Glass Designer

On: July 24, 2022

Tagged: finnish design, finnish designer 🇫🇮, glass designer, glassware, Glassware Designer

He made deeply cut crystal objects that were often coloured. He used a lot of nature subjects. The most famous is “Lumpeenkukka”. This glass object, designed by Okkolin in 1960, was Riihimäki Lasi’s best-selling single object. Okkolini’s glassware was presented to several foreign heads of state. He continued working for Riihimäki Glass until 1976 when glassblowing by hand was stopped. After that, he worked as a freelance designer. He was granted a state artist’s pension in 1980. Read More →

Lino Tagliapietra (b.1934) Italian Glassworker and Teacher

On: July 21, 2022

Tagged: glassware, Glassware Designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Italian 🇮🇹, italian glassware

From 1956, Tagliapietra taught glassmaking with Archimede Seguso and Nane Ferro; 1966—68, designed glass for Venini, Murano; until 1968, for Murrina; from 1968, taught glassmaking at Haystack School and Pilchuck School, Stanwood, Washington.
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Arne Jon Jutrem (1929 – 2005) Norwegian Designer

On: July 19, 2022

Tagged: danish, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, glassware, Glassware Designer

Jutrem was educated at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design 1946-1950, and at the same time received painting lessons from Carl von Hanno. Later studies with Fernand Léger in Paris 1952-53 and with Chrix Dahl 1954-55. He made his debut as a painter at the Autumn Exhibition in 1950.Read More →

Gunnel Gustafsson Nyman (1909 – 1948) Finnish glass and textile designer

On: July 17, 2022

Tagged: finnish, finnish design, finnish designer 🇫🇮, glassware, Glassware Designer

Nyman worked for all the great Finnish glass manufacturers of the 20th century: Riihimaki from 1932—47, Nuutajarvi-Notsjo from 1946—48, and Karhula from 1935—37 (and at littala from 1946—47). She designed for both production and studio glass.Read More →

Barbini Glasswork Italian Glass Manufacturers

On: July 2, 2022

Tagged: Design firm, glass, glass designer, glass factory, glassmaker, glassware, Glassware Designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, italian glass, italian glassware

Alfredo Barbini, a descendant of glassmakers from the early 15th century, studied at Abate Zanetti (design school at Murano glass museum) from age ten; in 1930, began studying at Cristalleria, Murano, becoming a maestro; became primo maestro at Martinuzzi and Zecchin; worked with Cenedese in the late 1940sRead More →

Sam Herman (1936 – 2020) American Glass Designer & Teacher

On: June 20, 2022

Tagged: glass designer, glassware, Glassware Designer

He studied sculpture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, under Leo Steppern; in 1966, glass making with Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino; in 1966, Edinburgh College of Art; in 1967, Royal College of Art, London.Read More →

René Lalique (1860 – 1945) French goldsmith and glassmaker

On: April 21, 2022

Tagged: french decor, French Design, French Designer 🇫🇷, glass, glassmaker, glassware, Glassware Designer

Artisan in glass and creator of family firm Cristal Lalique René Lalique was a FrenchRead More →

Hermann Bongard Norwegian graphic & glassware designer

On: February 2, 2022

Tagged: Glassware Designer, Nordic Design, norway, norwegian design, norwegian designer, Scandi Design, scandinavian design

Hermann Bongard Norwegian graphic designer and glassware designer. He studied lithography and commercial design. Read MoreRead More →

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