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Robert Willson, Image-maker

Glass artist Robert Willson (1912-2000) was one of the most complex and contradictory American artists of the past century. He was at once regional and international, steeped in Pre-Columbian art as well as Texas folklore. Educated in the Southwest a...

The Glasshouse

When John Ruskin disparaged the Crystal Palace as 'a great cucumber frame', he hit upon a truism. Representing the zenith of Victorian glasshouses, the Crystal Palace epitomized a building type that had been developed by horticulturists and garden ...

Sottsass. Glass Works

Ettore Sottsass, one of the most famous of Italian designers, has experimented many times with glass as a production material, Sottsass' work with glass began fifty years ago, when he cooperated with some of the most important and well-known of the ...

Ceramics and Glass: a Basic Technology

At first sight the two crafts of producing pottery and making articles in glass seem to be completely separate, however, they have a great deal in common. One process involves the cold working of a plastic material which becomes permanently hardened ...

Engraved Glass. International Contemporary Artists

It is the transparent quality of glass that makes engraved glass special. The fusion of remarkable technical skill with artistic vision and the hard unforgiving medium of glass through which light passes gives engraved glass its special magic.

For...

Jugendstilfenster in Sueddeutschland

Nachdem Erhard Remmerts Publikation über Jugendstilfenster in Deutschland auf so großes Interesse stieß, legt der Autor nun einen Band vor, in dem er sich mit Jugendstilverglasungen aus dem süddeutschen Raum beschäftigt. Auf zahlreichen Erkundungsrei...

Christian Herdeg (neon)

Basic Optical Stress Measurement in Glass

During the manufacture of all glass products, both temporary and residual stresses develop. Such stresses arise as a consequence of the manufacturing processes and for proper process control to be exercised it is necessary to be able to quantify thes...

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a word from the Zulu and Xhosa languages and means so much as “I am because we are”

Elemente des Designs

Jugendstilfenster in Norddeutschland

Mit diesem Buch liegt ein weiterer Band eines dreiteiligen Werkes über die profane Glasmalerei des Jugendstils in Süd-, Nord- und Ostdeutschland vor.

Im vorliegenden Band werden Jugendstilfenster aus norddeutschen Städten und Ortschaften dargestel...