What do alligators, René Lalique, and contessas have in common? They’re all featured in children’s books about glass. The Rakow Research Library is known for having high-quality resources for glass scholars, collectors, and makers, but did you know the Library … Read more →
What’s more fragile, a 19th century crystal decanter or a newspaper clipping from 1948? Well, it depends on whether you are throwing them or exhibiting them, it turns out. If you fling the glass decanter and the newspaper clipping against … Read more →
Early this summer I had a chance to do something out of the norm. As part of René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, our show about René Lalique here at the Museum, I had the chance (and challenge) to make samples … Read more →
The Tour de France, an annual multi-stage bicycle race set primarily in France, is perhaps the most well-known cycling event in the world. But did you realize the 2014 course has a connection to the history of glassmaking? Looking at a … Read more →