The actors sport hand-sewn satin gowns and rugged leather coats against a realistic backdrop of swampy, methane stench-ridden Five Points and the clean-swept cream-colored sidewalks of Fifth Avenue on a 212, 500 square-foot studio lot.
Cynics might regard the studio glass that is now being produced in Seattle as the decaf latte of glassblowing a clean-cut, healthy and lucrative adaptation of Italian traditions for American taste.