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Niche Modern

Updated May 26, 2006

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The art of lighting first inspired Jeremy Pyles as a photography student. “I learned that you can make or destroy an object with light,” he says. Ten years later, Pyles, cofounder of Niche Modern, creates the illuminating objects that make spaces exquisite. The company’s eight pendants, as well as its Trumpette table lamp, can be ordered on Niche’s website, where precisely shot images show off each piece’s warm modernism, text conveys the inspiration behind the merchandise and web surfers get to choose the color of their purchases. Just one forewarning: Part of the appeal of these hand-blown glass lighting fixtures is the uniqueness of hand-blowing, so what you see online is not exactly what you get. (via Elements of Living)

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Dante Marioni Glass

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Second-generation Italian-American glassblower Dante Marioni mines the Venetian obsession with Roman shapes, making pitchers, amphorae and other Bacchanalian vessels in luxurious, arresting colors. The languid duet of pitcher and handled goblet displays the <i>filo</i> technique, in which a vessel is rimmed with a single glass thread of contrasting color. The idea for Marioni’s Cup Box, on the opposite page, came from the cardboard boxes of the same dimension (two feet high by one foot square) where he discarded the Venetian goblets he made for play and practice. One morning in 1997 he had the notion to place the goblets in a Plexi-glas box and use it as an end table. After his baby learned to walk, he sold it to a collector. (via Elements of Living)

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Sonja Blomdahl Glass

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Sonja Blomdahl uses the demanding <i>incalmo</i> (literally, “with calm”) technique, in which blown pieces of open-sided colored glass are joined and shaped, to produce banded vessels and roundels in euphoric color sequences. Her signature inclusion of narrow rings of clear glass adds movement to the brilliant color. (via Elements of Living)

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James Mongrain

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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James Mongrain tops cartoonishly beaded balusters with bowl shapes that recall lampshades, taxi-horns, trumpets, flutes, bubbles, saucers and laboratory glass. The blue-crystal goblets shown here are from his “Modern Venetians” series; he also makes stunning versions of the same shapes in opaque glass and saturated colors. (via Elements of Living)

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Michael Davis Stained Glass

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Michael Davis’s vibrant orange-red vessel uses a variation on a Venetian patterning technique which he calls the “stained glass roll-up”: an unleaded panel of stained glass is heated and rolled onto a metal collar to be worked. (via Elements of Living)

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Höglund Art Glass Gallery

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Future heirlooms can be had from Höglund Art Glass. These one-of-a-kind Ariel-, Graal-, incalmo- and sommerso-technique glass collectibles by Ola Höglund and Marie Simberg-Höglund reflect the landscape of New Zealand and Far North Queensland, the couple’s adopted home since migrating from Sweden in the early 1980s. The Höglunds’ luminous glass objects suggest that Sydney—and all of Australasia’s natural beauty—isn’t a distraction from design, but rather an inspiration for it. (via Elements of Living)

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IceStone

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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In a former marine machinists’ shop at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 3,000-pound bags of optically sorted, crushed, colored recycled glass are stacked three high in the sky-lit interior. They await processing into IceStone, a polished, arresting, terrazzolike surface of chipped colored glass in a cement matrix. The current owners, Brooklyn natives and self-described "social entrepreneurs" Peter Strugatz and Miranda Magagnini, had a kindred vision of a hometown green business and bought the assets of the company at auction. Since its relaunch in 2003, the partners have systematically improved the product--building its strength and reducing porosity using a zealously guarded secret process (wouldn’t DuPont like to know?). IceStone can now be shaped, water-jet cut, inlaid, variously edged and custom-colored with striking results. Working with industrial design interns from nearby Pratt Institute, the pair have also refined the product palette, adjusting and exploring color ratios, adding pigment to the matrix and, lately, pearlescent shell. IceStone can be mounted vertically, but is most often used for kitchens and bathrooms: Artist/architect Maya Lin specified IceStone for counters in the heralded Greyston Bakery. (via Elements of Living)

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Brooks Custom

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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This is <i>the</i> countertop shop. Founded in 1972 by Richard Brooks, the 30,000-square-foot concern--fabricating, drafting, and finishing systems are all located under one roof--employs 25 craftspeople working in wood, metal, concrete and glass. The scope of Brooks Custom’s never-outsourced capability is unrivaled. For a martini bar, the company made a three-inch-thick, 30-foot-long serpentine concrete countertop, as well as a waterfall wall inlaid with crystals. Brooks is equally equipped to produce beautiful, highly customized kitchen hoods and sinks in a variety of different metals, and will also do custom door millwork. (via Elements of Living)

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Stone Source

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Since its founding in 1988 by partners Jeff Green and Mark Shredrofsky, Stone Source has become a major East Coast importer and distributor of high-end surfaces. The company regularly updates its inventory with new finds, and Green says that white Calacatta marble, countertop-friendly Basaltina and the volcanic green-gray Burlington are the hottest choices among the architects, designers and homeowners who frequent the New York headquarters and the Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia offices. The company also is a trusted source for engineered stone, ceramics and glass surfacing. (via Elements of Living)

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Solar Innovations

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Solar Innovations is a high-end manufacturer of aluminum exterior and aluminum exterior/wood interior glazed structures. The company was established in 1998 by Greg Header, who has since expanded his empire of the sun by offering extruded framing-system components that adapt well to conservatories, greenhouses, folding glass walls, skylights, sunrooms and windows. Solar Innovations sells its products through dealers across the country as well as through contractors where no dealers are currently established. (via Elements of Living)

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