All About Glass

All About Glass

This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Glass Question at our Rakow Research Library.

Harry Allen at GlassLab Cooper-Hewitt, 2008
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Harry Allen at GlassLab at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, May 17-June 3, 2008. A program of The Corning Museum of Glass, GlassLab brings designers together with glassmakers to offer them rare access to experimenting with hot glass and prototyping their design concepts.

Harry Allen and The Waffle Project
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Industrial designer Harry Allen came to The Corning Museum of Glass to work on ideas for his line of objects cast from real life. In this session at the Museum, Allen made prototypes of glass waffles cast in new and antique waffle irons.

GlassLab Design Session: Harry Allen & Chris Hacker
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Designers Harry Allen and Chris Hacker describe working at GlassLab during a two-day design session at The Corning Museum of Glass, August 21- 22, 2012.

GlassLab
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GlassLab, a film by Deidi von Schaewen, 2012. This film was on view in Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 6, 2013. GlassLab offers designers unprecedented access to molten glass. In public design performances or private sessions, designers

GlassLab (5 minute trailer)
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This is a 5 minute trailer of GlassLab, a film by Deidi von Schaewen, 2012. View the complete 40 minute video at Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 6, 2013. GlassLab offers designers unprecedented access to molten glass. In public design

Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab
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Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab showcases the Museum’s signature design program, GlassLab, in which designers are invited to work with hot glass. The exhibition features over 150 design prototypes by nearly 50 international designers. Over the last decade, the field of design has

Guest Artist Demonstration: Harry Allen
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Designer Harry Allen collaborates with the Hot Glass Team on a new design for Steuben—a large-scale glass piggy bank. Based in New York City, Harry Allen is a multi-disciplined designer with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn, Denver, Philadelphia Museums