Glass with class - Westfair Communications
Glass in its functional forms—drinking glasses and kitchenware, bottles and windows – is so familiar that we just take it for granted. It’s everyday and everywhere – practical, useful, replaceable, inexpensive. But there’s another aspect to glass – imaginative, colorful, beautiful, artful. Much of this type of glass is the product of the American studio glass movement that started in the 1960s in a workshop at Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art. There a ceramist named Harvey Littleton and glass artist Domenic Labino demonstrated a small glassblowing furnace that allowed aspiring glass a...