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Civilization created glass thousands of years ago, and
yet we are still fascinated by the substance. The simple
raw materials and the skill of craftmanship result in a wonderful material with extreme variety and unending
forms and colors.
In artistic glass blowing
three different types of glass are used:
- Soda glass, prepared from sand and
soda (mostly used for Venetian glass)
- Potassium glass, prepaired from sand and
ash of plants like fern (often used by the Czech
glassblowers)
- lead glass, produced from sand and lead-oxide
(used by the Scandinavian blowers and often very heavy)
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We
specialize in the glass of the twentieth century
- from Italy, the Murano
art glass from 1920 to 1970
- from Venini, the newly designed art glass from 1970 to 2005
- from Sweden, mainly Kosta and
Orrefors art glass from 1935 to 1965
- from Finland, the art glass
from 1940 to 1970
You can find a nice selection
of our art glass pieces in the following pages, ask for more items if you have special interests.
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