Farlow quickly realized there wasn't a lot of money to be made in glass art, so he focused on scientific glassware.
From his efforts was born the term studio glass meaning glass art rather than utilitarian objects a child of the 1960s that became a huge commercial success by the 1980s.
Earlier this month, the glass master's home town of Tacoma, Washington, a 30-minute drive from the city, honoured Mr Chihuly by opening a museum dedicated to contemporary glass art.
The indoor swimming pools are the most beautiful in Budapest, with the main pool having a glass dome, Art Nouveau mosaics, stained-glass windows and many statues.
With the region's long tradition of art glass, glassblowers are already setting their sights on the high-end cannabis crowd.
There he fostered the production of luxurious "art pottery, " the ceramic counterpart of the richly colored and textured "art glass" produced by Louis Comfort Tiffany and other innovators.
Behind a nearby table laden with smaller, handmade pipes fashioned from art glass and recycled guitar wood, a volunteer points out the grand prize for a raffle at Hempfest's own upcoming "420 Fest": a colorful hand-stitched quilt with a stylized marijuana leaf in its center panel.
His office is framed from floor to ceiling in glass, with modern art on nearly every wall.
Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.
Philadelphia's Museum of Art, the Corning Glass Museum (in New York state) and London's mighty Victoria and Albert where a major Art Nouveau exhibition opens next April have all loaned Nancy pieces for its exhibitions.
Several art galleries and glass studios cluster along the eastern portion of Market Street heading away from downtown.
The former occupant, a financial services company, had built a palatial executive suite with stained glass, antiques and expensive art.
The vessels on display here show how the Venetians emulated the Islamic art of enamelling glass in gold and colour.
But inside these towers of concrete and glass, people create community, art and meaning.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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The Art Nouveau structure, built in 1903, was transformed into a design hotel in 2012, showcasing granite walls lined with contemporary art, and stained glass windows that evoke a Harry Potter-like vibe.
Housed in an elegant five-storey Art Deco building of glass and steel tucked away in a Montparnasse cul-de-sac, the foundation was conceived by Mr Cartier-Bresson and his wife and fellow-photographer, Martine Franck, to showcase his life's work.
Tapio Wirkkala's wafer-thin laminated wood bowls and fluid, flaring glass, and the objects of art and manufacture of Timo Sarpaneva, Kaj Franck and other Finnish architects and artisans prove once again that the intrinsic quality of materials reduced to their most basic, sensuous essence, shaped by the creative imagination of an artist, beats all the kitsch in the world.
He nurses his next-day hangovers with a tall glass of Jumex pear juice in his art-journal-filled library.
Glass walls that permit the museum's art to be viewed from as far away as Wilshire Boulevard are key elements of Zumthor's prototype, which would connect other buildings including a beloved Japanese pavilion and an Academy of Motion Pictures museum with an indoor-outdoor art park, where visitors can wander at will and preview exhibitions before entering.
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Mies left us a series of 20th-century masterpieces, a revolution in the building art and a sea of imitators' glass boxes that remain conspicuously unloved.
It is so distinctive, art historians have been able to identify stained glass by the same artist throughout Europe.
Some 100, 000 visitors are expected to view the around 8, 000 objects from 95 French and international dealers in an enormous range of disciplines, including ancient, modern and Asian art, jewelry, weapons, ceramics, glass, furniture, books and tapestries.
Hippies and yuppies rub shoulders during the event held on Alberta Street in Northeast Portland, and "hipsters showcase their latest patched vintage tweed jacket and creative take on facial hair to crowds that take in food truck fare, art, hand-sewn sock puppets, glass blown jars and any other obscure item your heart might ever have desired, " Moon writes.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
The 3, 933-room Bellagio, famous for its in-house art collection that ranges from colourful Chihuly hand-blown glass sculptures to the current Claude Monet exhibition, is putting the finishing touches on its full remodel of all rooms and suites.
The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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Opened in 1866, this incredible cemetery boasts 250, 000 square-metres of eclectic art nouveau sculptures including Greek temples, elaborate obelisks and giant, glass-fronted, marble tombs that could pass for houses.
The museum's kids Web site has activities to keep kids entertained while visiting, including guides that focus on specific areas of art like a scavenger hunt, from animals to doors to stained glass.
While it's already being used in art galleries and inside cameras (as sensor covers), Nippon Electric Glass is pushing hard to get its invisible glass featured on mobile devices -- the selling point here is simply to achieve the effect of somewhere in between glossy glass and matte glass, so that you'd get the best color vibrancy with minimal reflection.
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