Übersicht
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 ...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a word from the Zulu and Xhosa languages and means so much as “I am because we are”
Faszination Glas.
Frau Regine Balmer, Lektorin vom Paul Haupt Verlag Bern, hat in der Ausgabe 2/1994 der Zeitschrift des Schweizer Heimatwerks die Reportage ´Eine Erfolgsgeschichte aus ganz besonderem Glas´gelesen.
Explorations in Glass
S. Donald Stookey tells of his pioneering discoveries and accomplishments over a life-long career at Corning Glass Works. His discoveries and inventions have left their mark in homes around the world, and have affected the development of eyeglasses, ...
Chandeliers
The crowning glory in many a classically proportioned room, the chandelier is once again enjoying the spotlight. This book takes the reader through the history of the chandelier from its first candle-lit forms to the innovative designs produced today...
Pahit Manis
Pahit Manis means bitter sweet and gives an impression of the world in which Van den Ham finds his inspiration and where he lives and works part of the year.
Pulang
The window Glass makers of St. Helens
This is a record of window glass making by the Company of Pilkington Brothers, at Grove Street, St. Helens from 1826 to 1952. It is wholly about the sheet and rolled glass making factory known as Sheet Works, located in St. Helens at Grove Street onl...
