If you’re seeking a clear alternative to granite as a countertop surface, the glass is more than half full — it’s overflowing with creative possibilities, in fact — thanks to the esthetic advantages and practical flexibility offered by thermoformed glass.
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The installation “Over Houston,” an art glass display commissioned from Napa, Calif., artist Gordon Huether for the connector bridge of the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, was recently completed. The six 12- x 20-foot art glass compositions are inspired by imagery Huether abstracted from aerial photographs he shot of Houston and the surrounding area.
“Over [...]

Hartung Glass Industries has launched a new decorative glass product line under the brand name Hartung Studio. The company describes Hartung Studio as a line of products that represent “the nearly limitless combinations of color, translucence, texture, imagery and opacity that is created by blending Hartung’s IMPRESSIONS screened glass with IMPACT Decorative by Lami Glass.”
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Glass workers from Kelly Art Glass, in Millvale, remove three stained glass windows from Sacred Heart Church in Shadyside. The windows, which contain more than 100 pieces of glass per square foot, will be fully re-leaded, restored and reinstalled in time for Easter, glass artisan John Kelly said.
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Some glass is meant to be looked through. Other glass is meant to be looked at.
When Tisch Mills artist Mike Morris finishes one of his etched glass creations, it definitely falls into the latter category.
When one Green Bay homeowner wanted to add an individualized touch to a large, newly installed six-piece wrap-around shower enclosure, he [...]

Exact Finish, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of original and custom glass and aluminum interior products, announced it will now do business as EFI. In tandem with the name change, the company has also launched a new brand identity and website (CLICK HERE to visit the new site).
“Since our company’s inception in 1999, our products, [...]

New art glass windows were dedicated January 10 at Lutheran Church of Webster Gardens in St. Louis, Mo. The windows are the creation of glass designer Kenneth VonRoenn of Architectural Glass Art, based in Louisville, Ky. The design features two windows measuring 12 x 30 feet that include painted glass with laminated prismatic and dichroic [...]

The piece by artist and architect Amy Landesberg, called “Veneers,” will be one of the large-scale art projects planned for the international terminal to open in 2012. It is described as “functional art” because it will be incorporated in a 1,000-foot wall along the tunnel between the new terminal and Concourse E, needed to divide [...]

A river of glass now flows through Pittsburgh in the city’s first all glass public art installation. “Rivers of Glass: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,” located in the lobby of 11 Stanwix Street, an historic 1960s-era high-modernist office tower in downtown Pittsburgh owned by RexxHall Realty LLC, opened to the public on Monday, January 11.
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When Morgan Spurlock was commissioned by Fox to make “The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!” he faced the immense task of gathering Simpsons references from around the world. (Note: the film is neither in 3-D, nor on ice).
In September, an assistant of Spurlock’s came across the stained glass work of Joseph [...]