69 Items Tagged

Glass

A small uranium-glass pitcher (left) and uranium glass plates (right).

The Collectors Who Hunt Down Radioactive Glassware

Their tools are black lights and Geiger counters.

Amiee Maxwell May 17, 2021

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dale Chihuly Sculpture

A unique configuration of blown glass can be found inside this hotel lobby.

After surviving a church fire, the windows sat in a garage for 50 years.

For Sale: Two Tiffany-Style Windows From a Historic South Side Church

The auctioneers think they’re Tiffany, but it’s actually hard to prove.

Sabrina Imbler November 12, 2019

Gallery view.

Chicago, Illinois

L.H. Selman Glass Gallery

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A sample of the particles discovered on the beaches of Japan's Motoujina Peninsula.

Found: Glass Fallout From the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

The particles have covered nearby beaches, unnoticed, for nearly 75 years.

Matthew Taub May 15, 2019

Wheeling, West Virginia

Sweeney Punch Bowl

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

House of Marbles.

Bovey Tracey, England

House of Marbles

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

The rolled up message read "BREAK" on one side, and "BOTTLE" on the other.

Found: A 50-Year-Old Scientific Message, Stuffed in a Bottle

Thousands were cast into the waves in the 1960s, and one turned up in Texas decades later.

Jessica Leigh Hester February 18, 2019

Banta

This sweet and salty Indian drink keeps an endangered soda bottle in business.

St. Petersburg, Florida

Chihuly Collection

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Juan Manuel Muñoz makes a glass bell at his factory on the outskirts of Chignahuapan, Puebla.

In This Mexican Town, One in 5 People Is a Glassmaker

Chignahuapan is famous for its handmade ornaments.

Mark Oprea November 12, 2018

Guilloché machine from Kosta around 1905.

Bergdala, Sweden

Bergdala Glastekniska Museum

The machines behind the famous handblown glass from Sweden's "Kingdom of Crystal."

Blenko Man

Weston, West Virginia

Blenko Man

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

Tacoma, Washington

Bridge of Glass

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Entrance to the Redcliffe Caves at Phoenix Wharf.

Bristol, England

Redcliffe Caves

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

Evangeline Bergstrom Paperweight Collection.

Neenah, Wisconsin

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

The museum houses one of the world's largest collections of glass paperweights.

The public art is located between the Helms Building and Platform in front of the Culver City Metro Station.

Culver City, California

Old Growth (New/Now)

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.