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.
The vessels on display here show how the Venetians emulated the Islamic art of enamelling glass in gold and colour.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Several art galleries and glass studios cluster along the eastern portion of Market Street heading away from downtown.
The art installation is a portable laboratory made of 24-karat gold-plated hardware, a glass bioreactor and the bacteria, a combination that produces gold in front of an audience.
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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.
High vaulted ceilings, huge walls for art, a 2-story entry with skylight and floor to ceiling iron glass doors are part of the details of the design.
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The costume galleries have long suffered from cramped quarters and often lifeless installations behind glass panes, which make the garments look more like clothes in a shop window than works of art.
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