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Georg Jensen – Silversmith (Danish, 1866 to 1935) Georg Jensen was born on August 31, 1866 (the seventh of eight children) in Radvaad, Denmark, north of Copenhagen in the countryside. His father worked as a grinder at a knife factory, where Jensen also worked at a young age. His family recognized and encouraged young Georg’s artistic instincts, and when he was 14 the family moved to Copenhagen so he could be apprenticed to [...] Click here to continue reading. The Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company, 1892-1903 Greentown Glass is the common name collectors give to the products of the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company of Greentown, Indiana. As is true with most of the origin of the industrial age in the northeastern United States, the availability of power made the manufacturing of glass and other commodities and decorative items possible. It was the discovery of natural gas in and around Howard County and [...] Click here to continue reading. Wharton Harrris Esherick (1887-1970) Living in a remote area by Valley Forge near Philadelphia, Wharton Esherick built his homestead and work place in the 1920s and left a legacy of bridging art with craftsmanship. Many of his works reflect the Art Deco style, and his distinctive furniture designs made him a pioneer of the decorative arts. He had little use for straight lines, and his structures are full of swirls and spirals, with an [...] Click here to continue reading. A. R. Cole Arthur Ray (AR) Cole (1892 to 1974), son of Ruffin Cole and brother to Charlie (CC) Cole, worked in his father’s pottery shop in Seagrove, North Carolina, from 1915 to 1925. He left to open his own shop, Rainbow Pottery, an active commercial enterprise from 1926 to 1941. Cole established Rainbow Pottery in Steeds, North Carolina, but later moved it to Sanford on US 1, the tourist highway linking New York [...] Click here to continue reading. Dimitri Chiparus (1888 to 1950) Dimitri Chiparus (Demeter H. Chiparus) was born in Romania in 1888 and then traveled to Paris before World War I to study and develop his art. He attended school in Italy and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and he exhibited at the Salon in 1914. Chiparus was particularly adept in the technique of chryselephantine, the combination of bronze and ivory to produce dramatic, stylized sculpture. [...] Click here to continue reading. William Calder (1792-1856) William Calder of Providence, Rhode Island began pewtering circa 1824 and worked until his death in 1856. He and Thomas D. Boardman of Hartford, Connecticut are responsible for the great majority of the surviving porringers of early American origin. Calder’s porringer output is second only to Samuel Hamlin also from Providence. Most Calder porringers measure from four and seven-eights to five and a quarter inches and carry the Eagle touch. His [...] Click here to continue reading. The Arts & Crafts Movement The principles of the Arts and Crafts movement were initially frontiered in England through the efforts of John Ruskin and William Morris. Ruskin was not a craftsman but an academic scholar at Oxford. He believed passionately that the Industrial Revolution would erode the English countryside by turning it into factory fields while relegating the skilled English craftsman to the status of a laborer. The battle cry of his movement, [...] Click here to continue reading. F. Barbedienne, Fondeur The Paris foundry of Barbedienne is generally considered to be the premier nineteenth century foundry for bronze sculpture. It was founded in 1838 by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Achille Collas, who had invented a mechanism to mechanically reduce statues. At first the Barbedienne foundry made bronze reductions of Greek and Roman antique sculptures. In 1843 they added the first living artist, Francois Rude, to their clientele. Throughout its history the Barbedienne organization [...] Click here to continue reading. Oscar Bruno Bach Born in Germany in 1884 and emigrated to the United States in 1913, Oscar Bruno Bach was a metallurgist and designer who, after many years of research, developed his own process enabling ferrous metals to sustain color and resist corrosion when used on building exteriors. Before the early 20th century, the use of mixed metals had been restricted to small works such as jewelry. Extraordinary skill and new techniques were required [...] Click here to continue reading. Steuben’s Aurene Glass Steuben Glass Works, founded in 1904 by Frederick Carder, created many types of lustrous lead glass, including the iridescent “Aurene”. This glass proved quite popular and was produced by spraying various chemicals and metallic salts on to a base glass (usually amber, clear or topaz). The addition of tin or iron solutions produced a matte finish, while alabaster and calcite produced green and red glass. Other similar formulas produced blue, brown [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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