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| 6th Street Marketplace Richmond, VA |
The 6th street Market window was created in one piece; a ten foot diameter stained glass window. To achieve this size, the reinforcing bars were a work of art unto themselves. We inserted beveled glass so the window would sparkle with the sun in the day and car lights at night. These windows are now owned by the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. |
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Jefferson-Pilot Building |
| A twelve foot diameter skylight for a bank in North Carolina. With a concave bow we constructed this with a framework of T-bars and built the sections to fit like a drop ceiling. The trick is to bend the panels along the lead lines and brace with reinorcing bars to achieve and hold the curve. |
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Book Bindery Building |
| A European design for a traditional building. Using a light background hand blown glass from West Germany, with emerald green and beveled glass as accents, we gave this window a feel of "organized energy". |
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The Ballroom |
| Our client did not want the brash look of new mirrors, so by contaminating silver nitrate and rolling it around on a 2' by 3' sheet of glass, we created these "anique" mirrors. Cutting our sheets to size, we selected a place for each mirror around the room to achieve a balanced effect. |
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VIP Lounge |
| We designed a mirror to go between the lighting fixtures using our "antique" mirror technique. With a thin line of emeral green reflective glass as an accent, we cut the mirror to the remiaing design and placed the edges together so the light from the fixtures would travel along the edges as one moved around the room. This is commonly know as the "French Cut". |
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Tandem Friends School |
This window was created for the art room of a private school, grades 5 thorugh 12. With the tree as their symbol, we wanted the window to express the energy, creativity, and spontaneity of the students. The tree was created using rolled stained glass with varying textures to give the effect of light filtering through the leaves. The surrounding area was created by hand beveling flash glass (a layer of color on a clear base) from West Germany. When completed, we made around 15 glass leaves with our flame-working and attached them to the window as if they were blowing in the wind.
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Tandem Friends School |
| Every window begins with ideas. The ideas are worked through on paper, usually staring small and then enlarged to scale and reworked. This is the original full scale sketch of the Tandem window above. Usually, we are half way through a project before we cut the first piece of glass. |
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