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Ever purchase a “crystal” bowl, vase, or set of glasses and wonder if it’s just fancy looking glass? It just might be! To be honest, there is no “official” definition separating the two. Marketing strategies by glassware companies include calling ordinary glassware “crystal” in order to charge higher prices for their goods. The only truly [...]
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Through the Looking Glass
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
If you could step through a mirror into an alternate world, what would it look like? How would it sound? What would it feel like? As creatures of intelligence and creativity, humans possess the magnificent ability to shape and master their lives. If you think about it, what elevates humankind above the animal kingdom is [...]
Crumpled-Looking Glass Building in Spain
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
The Basque Health Department headquarters in Bilbao, Spain bends and inverts, twists and contorts in such a fashion as to appear crumpled, but it’s made of glass! The unique architecture was meant to mirror the Guggenheim Museum and was designed by Coll-Barreu Architects. Hailed as being modern, progressive, and organic, the building marks a sharp [...]
The Louvre Pyramid
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
Six hundred seventy-three panes of glass. At over seventy feet high at its peak, the Louvre Pyramid was an enormous undertaking. Commissioned in 1984 by former French President François Mitterrand, the glass pyramid not only melds modern architecture with the classical architecture of the Louvre, it descends below ground and acts as an entrance to [...]
Mexican Chapel of Glass
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
In Cuernavaca, Mexico, nestled in rich deciduous forest, is a modern chapel made of glass. Layers of frosted and plain glass alternate vertically to create the illusion of light rising upwards. The simple, elegant rectangular building is void of pews and furniture. A crucifix hangs at the far end. Capped in white stone that matches [...]
Glass Enclosed Pool Balcony
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
The projected plans for a building that has been proposed in Mumbai, India have glass enclosed pools literally hanging off the side of the thirty-seven story building! Could you imagine floating face down in a pool, staring down hundreds of feet off the side of a skyscraper? The fear-defying plans call for glass pool barriers to surround [...]
Corning Museum of Glass
Posted by franm on November 2nd, 2012
At the top of our list of places to visit in the United States is the Corning Museum of Glass. When you think of Corning, you think of kitchen glassware and cookware, like Pyrex™ for example. When we at Glass King think of Corning, we think of pioneering an industry, innovation, huge advancements in technology, [...]
Helping the Victims of Hurricane Sandy
Posted by Matt Sturgeon on November 2nd, 2012
Stretching over a thousand miles wide, Hurricane Sandy made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey. At Glass King, more than one of us has roots in the Tri-State Area, and we are heartbroken to see the utter devastation, loss of lives, and profound affect this Superstorm has had on at least fourteen states. Storm surges [...]
The Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral
Posted by Matt Sturgeon on October 19th, 2012
The Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral Pierre d’Arras created this spectacular stained glass window for the south facade of the Lausanne Cathedral in Lausanne, Switzerland. From 1231-1235, the traveling artist from Picardy handcrafted the gothic rose-shaped window of concentric circles with layers of complex imagery and meaning. Round like the universe was thought to [...]
Glass In Medicine
Posted by Matt Sturgeon on October 14th, 2012
Glass In Medicine Okay, so we’re a little obsessed with glass. Beyond the traditional uses of glass in building and structure though, there are many surprising places that glass is essential to everyday life that we don’t normally think about. The screen of the computer that you are using to read this blog, for example. [...]
