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William Blenko (1854 – 1926) and Blenko Glassware

On: August 17, 2022

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 →

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 →

Orrefors Glasbruk a Swedish glassware manufacturer.

On: August 12, 2022

Tagged: Design, glass, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, nordic, Nordic Design, orrefors, paris, Scandi Design, swedish design 🇸🇪

Orrefors Glasbruk is a Swedish glassware manufacturer. An ironworks was established in 1726 on the property of Halleberg ( the Orrefors estate), Socken, Småland. Read More →

Everything Old is New Again – Glass Making Techniques

On: August 10, 2022

Tagged: design history, glassmaker, glassware

Manufacturers and designers recreated some ancient Egyptian and Roman glassmaking processes in the early 20th century.Read More →

Riihimaki Glass – Finnish Glass Factory

On: July 24, 2022

Tagged: finnish, finnish design, finnish designer 🇫🇮, glass factory, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, scandinavian design

Riihimäki Glass was a Finnish glass factory. The factory, established in 1810 for the production of domestic glassware, began production of window glass in 1919. It purchased various small factories, including the factory in which the Finnish Glass Museum is located today. After buying the Kaukalahti glassworks in 1927, Riihimaki became the largest glass factory in Finland.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 →

Clyne Farquharson (1906 – 1978) British glassware designer

On: July 1, 2022

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 →

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 →

Klaus Moje (1936 – 2016) German Glass Designer

On: December 3, 2021

Tagged: German Designers 🇩🇪, glass, glass designer, Glass german, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, glassworker

Around 1975, Moje began cutting the rods into thin wafers or strips and fusing them in a kiln. The pieces would then be cut again and re-fused to create rhythmic patterns of vibrant colour. In 1976, Moje returned to Hamburg after living in Danzinger Strasse. Read More →

Vase-sculpture ‘The Apple’ Designed by Ingeborg Lundin for Orrefors

Ingeborg Lundin (1921 – 1991) Swedish Glassware Designer

On: December 1, 2021

Tagged: glass, glass designer, glass swedish, glassmaker, glassmaking, glassware, glassware designer, glassworker, swedish, swedish design 🇸🇪, swedish designer 🇸🇪

Ingeborg Lundin (1921 – 1991) was a Swedish Glassware Designer. Between 1941 – 1946 she studied at Konstaackskolan and Tekniska Skolan, Stockholm.Read More →

Paolo Venini (1895 – 1959) Italian Glassware Designer

On: November 15, 2021

Tagged: artisan, craftsman, craftsmanship, glass, glass designer, glass factory, glassmaker, glassmaking, glassware, glassware designer, glassworker, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, italian glass, italian glassware, modern style, traditonal crafts

Murano glassware was historically decorated with opulent rubies and gold and fanciful forms in vibrant colours. He hired freelance designers like Martinuzzi and Fulvio Bianconi regularly. Gio Ponti from 1927, Carlo Scarpa from 1932, Eugene Berman from 1951, Ken Scott from 1951, Franco Albini from 1954, and Massimo Vignelli from 1956 were the designers he commissioned.Read More →

Vicke Lindstrand (1904- 1983) Swedish glassware designer

On: November 6, 2021

Tagged: glass, glass swedish, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, orrefors, sweden, Sweden design, swedish, swedish design 🇸🇪, swedish designer 🇸🇪

He worked at Kariskrona Porslinsfabrik from 1935 to 1936; at Upsala-Ekeby from 1936 to 1950 (as art director from 1943 to 1950) Kosta Boda glassworks from 1950 to 1973, where he was design director while also maintaining his studio in Arhus. Often, his free-form work was engraved.Read More →

Kosta Boda Swedish glass manufacturer

On: October 29, 2021

Tagged: Design firm, glass, glass factory, glass swedish, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, swedish design 🇸🇪

Kosta Boda, for much of its early life, this famous Swedish glassmaking company’s production centred on drinking glasses, chandeliers, and window panes. However, in the late nineteenth century, with the employment of designers such as Alf Wallander and Gunnar Wennenberg, a more concerted design policy emerged, resulting in more fashionable, Art Nouveau-inspired products.Read More →

Finn Lynggaard Danish ceramicist and glassware designer

On: October 28, 2021

Tagged: danish, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer

In 1958, he established his own workshop, making him a pioneer in the field of Danish studio glass. Deeply coloured flower designs on translucent backgrounds are a signature of his glasswork.Read More →

Willy Johansson (1921- 1993) Norwegian Glass Designer

On: September 18, 2021

Tagged: glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, Nordic Design, norwegian design, norwegian designer, Scandi Design

His father was at the Hadelands Glassverk, Jevnaker, where Johansson joined the glassmaking workshop in 1936. He was best known for the white rim on his clear or smoked glassware.Read More →

Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) American Glass Designer

On: August 12, 2021

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, american glassware, glass designer, glassmaker, glassware

Dale Chihuly is an American Glass Designer born in Tacoma, Washington. He is one of the most respected glass artists in the United States. Read More →

Ajeto Glassworks – Czech Republic

On: June 13, 2021

Tagged: Czech Design 🇨🇿, Czech Designer 🇨🇿, glass, glass factory, glassmaker, glassware

Ajeto Glassworks – Czech Republic. Borek Spek, a renowned Czech designer, and Petr Novotny, a talented young glassblower, formed this glass company in 1989 Read More →

Simon Gate (1883 – 1945) Swedish artisan and designer

On: June 1, 2021

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 →

Flavio Poli (1900 – 1984) Italian designer of glassware

On: April 6, 2021

Tagged: glass, glass designer, glassmaker, glassware, glassware designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, italian glass, italian glassware, paris

Flavio Poli (1900 – 1984) was an Italian designer of glassware. He was born in Chioggia and worked in Venice professionally. He was born in 1900 and studied art at the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia before working as a ceramicist.Read More →

Guillaume Saalburg French glassworker and engraver

On: January 19, 2021

Tagged: French, French Designer 🇫🇷, glass, glassmaker, glassworker

Guillaume Saalburg was a French glassworker and engraver he was professionally active in Paris. EducationRead More →

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