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Since the first time someone thought to heat and combine sand, sodium carbonate and lime, the drive to create original pieces of glasswork has skyrocketed in popularity.
St .Helens based glass maker Pilkington shrugged aside difficult trading conditions at its UK building products division to predict a 15 per cent rise in full year profits today.
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They were Irish immigrants who chipped in spare change earned from digging coal and building railroads to buy hundreds of stained glass windows for Catholic churches.From about 1870 until the Great Depression, divisions of the Ancient Order of…
Well-known American abstract artist Alan Held's designs for laminated art glass windows for the Orlando federal courthouse annex and expansion are on loan to the Orlando Museum of Art through April 3.
Although everyday a number of tourists pass by the Christ Church on the Ridge in Shimla, hardly a few care to peep inside.
An American artist will make his mark on a city centre with the unveiling of a 12-metre high glass sculpture. Danny Lane's "Ellipsis Eclipses" will be the latest piece of public art to grace the streets of Tyneside.
Vintage Italian glass, bursting with color and fantastical forms, is back in the limelight after a late-1990s bust that shattered many buyers' dreams of ever-rising prices.
Insurers should put pressure on car manufacturers to raise their security standards according to the July Which? Report.
Glass artist Michelle Walker wanted to use her craft to honor fellow artists who'd served in the military -- and to celebrate art as a form of peace.``With all the stuff going on in Iraq,'' she said, ``it seemed appropriate.'…
Two museums, the Orlando Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, have collaborated in displaying an artist known for his glass bowls, vases, floats and chandeliers.
Stained-glass windows in the Basilica of the Assumption, I would like to paraphrase Groucho Marx and say: "Be gone, and never darken my church again." I'm voting for transparency.
An auctioneer who sold his house to buy a pier has uncovered a 1930s masterpiece in stained glass - only to discover workmen broke half the panes in the 1960s.
Tomorrow's automotive designers see hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles as not only environmentally friendly but also friendly to innovative glass applications, giving them the freedom to create vehicles with gondola-like glass tops,…
FEARS of more glass shattering have turned the reopening of the National Gallery of Victoria into a nightmare.Temporary passageways are to be built to protect art lovers after an engineer's report found more breakages were possible.
The recent decision by British Airways and Air France to retire their Concorde fleets will end a fantastic era in world aviation.
Laura Alleman was rooting around in her mother's basement five years ago when she stumbled onto three saucers made of pale pink Depression glass.
Gopal Krishna, working with an advertising agency, sees only with one eye. Not because he was born this way but because his Maruti 800 had a tempered windshield when he met with an accident late one night in May 1995.
The art form, which involves fusing layers of glass using a kiln, is especially popular in the Northwest, but there are only a handful of serious glass fusers in Maine and even fewer resources for beginning artists.
Bertil Vallien freezes bodies in glass. They lurk beneath the surface, neither dead nor alive. He traps things he wishes didn't exist, such as the lethal-injection death chamber, as if to stop them in their tracks.
The artist took a glass-blowing class as an elective in college and found her passion in life.Lisa Pelo-McNiece, an artist from Indianapolis, majored in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and never did a thing with her major.
Bystronic acquired Armatec Vierhaus GmbH, effective January 1, 2003. For Bystronic, a global supplier of system solutions for fabricating and processing of architectural and automotive glass, the aquisition of Armatec, which specializes in laminated…
After a year under construction, the new Bergen City Parkinghouse in Norway is now complete and is proudly displaying Pilkington glass.
Whether the sunroof is open or closed, sky is what passengers of DaimlerChrysler's PT Cruiser Big Sky see on the latest rendition of the popular niche vehicle, shown today at the SEMA show.