Month: January 2008

Polly van der Glas Jewelry

Fiona Killackey at Cool Hunting writes: Plenty are on the “let’s recycle and reuse” bandwagon these days but few have looked at really reusing what we have quite like Melbourne-based jewelry designer Polly van der Glas. Sourcing her materials from friends and family who have been kind enough to offer (actual) parts of themselves, van […]

Glass artist

Glass artist

For centuries the Hammesfahr family has been blowing rods of glass into objects of art, I wonder if they’re still doing this? Looks like they had a book Mechanix Illustrated 1947- THE place is a Brooklyn workshop, the year, 1947. George Hammesfahr blows gently into the hollow glass rod and a wine-red bubble puffs slowly […]