HOUSEWARES GRAVEYARD WINDOWS
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The Graveyard series are windows whose primary glass is rescued from the mundane life of serving bowls, platters, goblets, lids, jars and general household utility. There are a limited number of glasses available as a "stained glass" material that possess strong prismatic qualities or have images imprinted in them. The texture of glass bends light depending on its irregular or cut surface. Assembling the variety of textures creates a jewel-like symphony of texture. The limited availability of these objects makes each piece unique and a one-of-a-kind work of art.
WILLIAMS RESIDENCE WINDOW
The Williams Residence window is made of candy jar lids, hand blown glass and glass jewels. The candy jar lids create a beautiful 3D prismatic effect.
GREEN BOTTOM WINDOW
This Green Bottom window was a commission for a residence in a Philadelphia suburb. The approval process for the glass used was done entirely by photos sent by e-mail. The interior designer of the project was Constance Healy.
DOOR WINDOW
The basement door in the kitchen of this grand house in Brookline, Massachusetts, has a playful kitchen themed window. The window features several pieces that were cut from serving plates and bowls. The upper left quadrant of the window has an embossed dragonfly in recognition of the beautiful grounds designed by Olmstead.
FRONT DOOR WINDOW
This window is installed on the front door of a house in Brookline, MA. The window is composed of square and rectangular found glass objects. It is installed in a metal frame that hinges open for easy cleaning.
KITCHEN WINDOW
This kitchen window is installed in a house in Cambridge, MA. The window is composed of mostly serving plate and bowl bottoms but also features some pieces with embossed imagery that is particularly meaningful to the client. The background is of a subtle variation of transparent green glasses.
CABINET DOOR WINDOW
This cabinet door is installed in a private residence in historic Lexington, MA. The background glass is semi opalescent and the texture of the glass helps to hide the contents of the cabinet. The medallion features found glass selected by the client and Dan from our stock of harvested glass objects.
KITCHEN BACK SPLASH WINDOW
Inspired by the Green Bottoms window in the Housewares Graveyard series, this kitchen window resides in a house in Lake Forest, Illinois. The window includes a variety of glass, bowl, wine bottle, and plate bottoms. Scattered throughout the window are hand blown marbles from the client's own collection. The center Butter Cover piece is colored with uranium as are several marbles.
WINE LOVERS KITCHEN WINDOW
This kitchen window for a wine lover's residence in Charlestown, Massachusetts provides a beautiful visual image and blocks the unsightly view out the window. The border area is composed of wine bottle bottoms and wine stemware bottoms with a variety of deep purple glass between each piece. The center area is composed of a variety of dishware and embossed glass objects that have a kitchen, food and Boston theme.
DETAIL OF WINE LOVERS WINDOW
This kitchen window for a wine lover's residence in Charlestown, Massachusetts provides a beautiful visual image and blocks the unsightly view out the window. The border area is composed of wine bottle bottoms and wine stemware bottoms with a variety of deep purple glass between each piece. The center area is composed of a variety of dishware and embossed glass objects that have a kitchen, food and Boston theme.
DETAIL OF WINE LOVERS WINDOW
This kitchen window for a wine lover's residence in Charlestown, Massachusetts provides a beautiful visual image and blocks the unsightly view out the window. The border area is composed of wine bottle bottoms and wine stemware bottoms with a variety of deep purple glass between each piece. The center area is composed of a variety of dishware and embossed glass objects that have a kitchen, food and Boston theme.
GREEN BOTTOMS II
26" x 25" The second Green Bottoms was made in response to the overwhelming reaction we received to the first Green Bottoms, which was featured in newspapers and magazine articles. The window is comprised of highly textured bottle, vase, serving plate and stemware bottoms along with a variety of antique pressed glass jewels and objects. The background is a variety of clear textured glasses and the border is composed of pale lavender "Depressions Glass" plates.
STUDY GREEN BOTTOMS WINDOW
This is one of 14 windows installed in a house in Swampscott, MA. The window is set in an interior wall between a bathroom and study.
FOOD THEME KITCHEN WINDOW
Several medicine bottle remnants are blended into more typical food themes in the Wellesley, Massachusetts kitchen window. The medicine bottles refer to this couples' careers in the health provider industry. The window is installed in a door that blocks the view of a brightly lit mud room.
PERSONALIZED KITCHEN WINDOW
This window is installed in a space between the kitchen and living room of a quaint house in Belmont, MA. Most of the glass images and textures follow a kitchen theme but there are several medicine bottle remnants with vaguely scientific-sounding names in recognition of the couple's work as research scientists. Their son's birthday is hidden in code in the window using numbers and bottle bottom coding dots
OCEAN THEMED GREEN BOTTOM WINDOW
This "Green Bottoms" window is installed in a lovely home on Simmons Island, GA. To personalize the window, the client requested the inclusion of "sea glass" they found at the local beach. The addition of greenish blue plate fragments and jewels in the border give the window's color range an ocean feel
CONNELY RESIDENCE GREEN BOTTOM WINDOW
The Connely Residence window is another in my "Green Bottoms" series. The use of green found objects is the most popular in the use of reclaimed or recycled glass.
DOOR PANEL 1 for TUDOR
One of three door panels for a beautiful Tudor/Arts and Crafts hybrid house in Cambridge,MA My two favorite pieces in the panel are Peter Rabbits Garden Party to the right of the ship and Tweety to the upper left of the ship. This type of found object window also acts like a narrative about the client. I will include pieces that reflect their interests or what they are like.
DOOR PANEL 2 for TUDOR
Another of the door panels from the Tudor/Arts and crafts house in Cambridge. I love the Dr Kilmers Swamp Root bottle part on the right. It has a kidney embossed in it.
PRISMATIC PANEL
A small prismatic panel with Luxfer tiles, butter cover dishes, prisms, jewels, and rectangular bowl bottoms.
BAR WINDOW
Another alcohol/bar themed window for a house in Marblehead,MA. I included quack medicine bottles, some "bar" food references, and a flattened glass humidor that is an image of a "Dime Store Cigar Indian" (very politically incorrect!). The cluster of grapes will be plated on the backside with purple glass to make Concord grapes.
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL EXTENDED STAY RESIDENCE WINDOW
This is one of the one of the windows I created for an extended stay residence at Childrens Hospital in Brookline,MA. The large house was acquired by Childrens from a fraternity that managed to not completely destroy the beautiful architectural elements. Childrens rehabed the house and added a number of rooms for families to stay in while their child was receiving treatment at the hospital. 65 artists were selected to install art in the building. The window hangs in a breakfast nook with references to food, Bostons history and just some fun kid oriented imagery all in found glass objects.
50th BIRTHDAY WINDOW
This window was commissioned as a 50th birthday gift for a wine lover in Maryland. The grapes in the center are a grape pattern serving dish plated behind with a piece of purple glass. The green objects are wine bottle bottoms, 5 green, 1 brown as a sneaky reference to his 50th birthday.
MASON JAR WINDOW
I have done quite a few commissions that included flattened mason jars bit I like the addition of the border with images of fruits and vegetables embossed in the glass. Images of items that might be stored in mason jars.
CHESTNUT HILL WINDOW
This window was a commission for a house in Chestnut Hill,MA. The designer suggested we not cram the piece full of objects which proved to be a great idea. The negative spaces between the objects and the wide leads create a very different pattern than previous found object windows. The objects in this window are candy and cookie jar lids and the background glass a Kokomo SCP textured glass.
FOUND OBJECT WINDOW with RED DEPRESSION GLASS
I created one of these found object windows with the red Depression glass that was hanging in the studio when a client came in and asked me to create one for their space. I enjoy how some commissions are inspired by a window that I do as an art piece, and then sometimes a commission can inspire an art work.
FOUND OBJECT WINDOW
This is another of the found object windows that became a narrative of the client and her family. It also includes gardening, food, patriotic images and some rocking fun textured glass.
DOOR SIDELIGHT WINDOW IN WOBURN MA
This sidelight is chock full of images that tell this couple story and lots of stuff for the grandkids to look at.
WINE CELLAR WINDOW 1
This is one of two wine cellar windows in a residence in Swampscott,MA Wine bottle bottoms galore!!!
GREEN BOTTOM WINDOW
Another commission in the Green Bottoms series. It is fun to push the color range of the greens to suit the colors of the house.
OLIVE GREEN BOTTOM WINDOW
A commission for a house in NJ. This is the first in the Green bottoms series where the green objects are all in the olive end of the spectrum. The gold ruby jewels in the corners compliment the greens nicely.
FOUND OBJECT WINDOW
Another in the found object series and I wanted to try and use a lot of larger platters mixed with smaller objects.
The Blue window is composed of cobalt blue storage jar parts and stemware bottoms. The border is a handblown multiple color streaky glass sprinkled with faceted glass jewels.
RECLAIMED OBJECTS 15-1/2" x 13-1/2"
As with many of the Reclaimed Objects windows in our studio, the subject and composition of The Great Dr. Kilmer window work around the size and shape of several medicine bottles that have been cut apart and flattened. The window was originally going to feature Dr. Kilmer exclusively but upon researching the world of folk cures and remedies and finding several other medicine bottles, I decided to include a few more lively and strange images and cures. Beyond the strangeness of the cures (swamp root?) the promotion of the characters behind the cures is a fun peak back at the world of medicine from 1875 through the 1920's.
TRIBUTE to PB&J featuring the Mr. Peanut® Chorus Line 19.5" x 26.5"
My inspiration for the PB&J window is rooted in the iconographic status of both Mr. Peanut® and peanut butter and jelly. At first glance the window just appears to be a pleasing design featuring grapes and leaves on a field of clear textured glass. Closer examination reveals the angled Mr. Peanuts® seemingly dancing in celebration lorded over by the exquisite (ashtray bottom) Mr. Peanut® at the top of the window.
THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MARKET
The central piece of the Piggy window was harvested from the bottom of a giant pigs knuckles jar. The words This little piggy went to market are embossed around the pig. The surrounding round pieces are also embossed with images and the words describing herbs and their uses. The central pig piece is surrounded by chips of brightly colored and highly textured Depression glass.