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UrbanGlass, located on Fulton Street in the historic 1918 Strand Theatre in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District is the New York metropolitan area's leading glass-blowing facility. [1] UrbanGlass was founded in 1977 by three artists and was originally known as the New York Experimental Glass Workshop. [2]
Brookfield Glass Company was an American glass company based in Brooklyn, New York, from 1864 to c. 1912, and in Old Bridge, New Jersey, from c. 1906 to 1921. it was known for producing industrial glassware such as jars, bottles, and electrical insulators. [1]
Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co. [12] It later moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works.
Glass Bottle Beach, facing the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. From the nineteenth century to the twentieth century, the area has been used in a variety of ways, including manufacturing fertilizer from the remains of dead animals, producing fish oil from the menhaden caught in the bay, and more recently a landfill for the disposal of New York City’s garbage. [3]
Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, [3] and the Frauenau Glass Museum.She served on the board of directors for UrbanGlass, a glassblowing studio based in Brooklyn, from 2008 to 2018.
Thomas Scharman Buechner (pronounced BEAK-ner; September 25, 1926 – June 13, 2010) was an artist who turned to working at museums. After working for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became the founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass, and later director of the Brooklyn Museum, where he oversaw a major transformation in its operation and displays, before returning to Corning.
Pairpoint candlestick, 1912 Brooklyn Museum. Pairpoint is known for three kinds of glass lampshades, originally produced from the mid-1890s through the mid-1920s: reverse painted landscape shades (where the glass is hand painted on the inside surface so colors appear softly through the glass), blown out reverse painted shades, and ribbed reverse painted shades, mostly with floral designs and ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art Brooklyn Flint Glass Co. cut glass ~ 1850–1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art The sliced tube of glass is flattened in an oven as part of the process for making window glass using the cylinder method. Flint glass is usually glassware, although it can be bottles and lamp chimneys.