Murano Glass Paperweight

Murano glass paperweights are known for its beauty of colors and clarity.

Shining and substantial, a Murano glass paperweight makes a first-class desk addition. Over the well-known isle of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon, art glass has been refined through the past 100 years.

Handmade in Italy using traditional techniques. (more...)

Wine Decanters

There's lots of fantastic crystal wine decanters available for the wine lover.

As you become more enthusiastic about wine and begin to incorporate wine as part of your life you can, certainly, find a functional crystal wine decanter that make your wine experience wonderful.

Decanters for sale: A decanter is a glass serving utensil. The wine is poured inside a decanter to help enhance the wines taste.

The wine can be next served from the decanter. They can be found in a variety of shapes and designs. (more...)

Fenton Art Glass Factory Tour

Fenton Art Glass Company manufacturer of handmade colored glass (more...)

Jacques Grüber

Jacques Gruber, plastic artist, painter and French glass, born 25 January 1870 to Sundhausen (Germany) - died the 15 December 1936 in Paris.

This is an award from the city of Nancy that allowed him to take courses of Gustave Moreau in Paris.

He returned to Nancy in 1893 where it teaches at the school of the fine arts to make vases decorations for Daum, furniture for Majorelle and books for René blankets Wierner. It mounts his own workshop in 1897 and specializes in quickly glass and stained glass.

He was, in 1901, one of the founders of the school Nancy.

He is interested in all techniques of Arts décoratifs of focus on the stained glass around 1900. In 1901 he part of the Steering Committee of the Nancy school. In 1914, he moved to Paris.

It will participate in the decoration of the liner "the Ile de France", for which he was responsible for transatlantic lighting. (Music: Mozart - Adagio & Rondo for glass harmonica, W.A) (flute, oboe, violin & cello)

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Lalique Bowls

Rene Lalique name's synonymous with 1920s and 1931s Art Deco Glass. Lalique's rise to prominence in the manufacture of Art Glass followed close behind his career as the premier Art Nouveau jeweler. Rene Lalique produced the quality of moonstones and opals in his range of glassware known as Opalescent Glass.
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Rene Lalique

The two French craftsmen whose names are synonymous with 1920s and 1930s Art Deco glass are Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. Marinot's production amounted to little more than 2,000 pieces whereas Lalique's production using mass-producing techniques amounted to several million objects.

Rene Lalique's rise to prominence in the manufacture of art glass followed close behind his career as the premier Art Nouveau jeweller. Lalique reproduced the quality of moonstones and opals in his range of glassware known as opalescent glass.

Other French glassmakers such as Barolac, Sabino, Hunebelle, and Verlys all included opalescent glass in their catalogues yet none managed to combine the same high quality design and control of opalescence achieved by the Lalique workshops.

It is important that the new collector does not confuse the productions of Cristal Lalique, the present day company with that of Rene Lalique. Nearly all the ware produced during Lalique's lifetime (he died in 1945) include the initial 'R' together with the name Lalique.

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