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The magical art of blown glass
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Penelope Wurr
Penelope Wurr's design influences range from William Morris to Beatrix Potter to just a fascination with color and pattern combinations. "When I was growing up in London," says the artist, "I was surrounded by a mixture of modern architecture and fascinating wallpapers. I've been trying to bring them both back into fashion for years." Adapting some...
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Adam Aaronson
Adam Aaronson began his love affair with glass in 1977 when he took a few informal glass blowing lessons and immediately fell under the spell of this most unpredictable and volatile of artistic mediums. Three decades on, the artist designs and makes glass with undiminished passion at his Studio in London. Adam's work has been exhibited all over the world and can be found in numerous private collections from royalty to rock stars...
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Gabbiani
For almost forty years Gabbiani, Venezia, has carried out with great enthusiasm the artisan tradition of glassmaking, which confirms exclusively manual procedures, jealously preserved and transmitted directly from the "maestro" to the apprentice. The ancient "recipe books" for the glass substance, going back as far as 1523, still give rise to every single one of Gabbiani's pieces...
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