Glass Glorious Glass! What's your favorite?

Hi Glassies :)

We are helping to reinvigorate the Groups here with good content that we hope will bring in lots of Googlebots and of course, new members and potential customers!

So to start I thought it might be fun and informative to have a discussion here about which types of glass are our favorites.

Feel free to add photos, as well as any links to great glass reference sites. No promotion of items for sale here tho ;-)

(I'll copy reference links that are great resources to the "sticky" area above)

I love just about all glass! but my very favorite is the pressed glass from the Art Deco - Depression era, and especially the vases, bowls, flower frogs and, my most loved, vanity accessories from that period.

Most people are familiar with the classic Depression (and Elegant) Glass made by all the renowned American Glass companies, but here is a wonderful resource to learn more about the European early 20thC Pressed Glass...get ready for some serious glass eye candy in this remarkable glass gallery!

Pressglas Pavillon by Pamela Wessendorf

So, before I write volumes about how I also love Cameo glass, and reverse painted glass, and opal glass and...and....and.....

;-)

what is your favorite type of glass?

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Permalink Reply by Pillowsophi on July 13, 2011 at 2:51pm

I love mid century modern and art deco glass! Some of my favourite patterns are by Luminarc/Arcoroc France. For example, I think their Ruby Red Cavalier glasses are just gorgeous:

I also love Scandinavian glass... like Holmegaard. So amazing.

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 13, 2011 at 4:39pm

oooh those are lovely glasses! :) thanks Pillowsophi

do you have any good reference links for Scandi glass?

Permalink Reply by LilacsNDreams on July 13, 2011 at 4:44pm

Fenton Green Opalescent Grape and Cable

I usually like colored glass, no specific company. Just what catches my attention is when I know I like it:) I love some of the glass that is iridescent....gorgeous when it is clean, and gives off that wonderful shine of soft colors:) Although...I have seen a few clear glass pcs that do have a light iridescent to them that has been adorable too.

I do tend to favor more of the pink, green, and sometimes blue glass too. Bowls, compotes, figurines, and once in a while maybe a vase.

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 13, 2011 at 5:55pm

Nice bowl! :)

Opalescent glass really does have such a special allure!

Permalink Reply by LilacsNDreams on July 13, 2011 at 10:01pm

Thank You Cheri!:)

Permalink Reply by COBAYLEY on July 13, 2011 at 11:46pm

I'm with Pillowsophi..if I had to pic a fave...I'd like the 1950's 60's sleek styles...probably because I was like 9 or 10 then and all the adults around me were entertaining...and I DO MEAN entertaining...the cocktail parties were all the rage, everyone from young adults to grandmas and grandpas had fancy cocktail shakers and ice buckets...wine had not hit the acceptable scene yet and it was the sleek tumblers that were so popular...love talking about and remember glass blasts from the past....

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 14, 2011 at 10:27am

Spoken like a true glassaholic ;-) lol

One of my relatives went to the Spirited Celebration of the American Cocktail Culture that I linked in "Hot off the Presses" discussion here at VV a while back , and they said the cocktail shakers and other glassware was amazing!

Be sure to click thru the photo gallery....such cool stuff!

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137106364/a-spirited-celebration-of-a...

COBAYLEY said:

love talking about and remember glass blasts from the past....

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 15, 2011 at 11:35am

Here are two of my reverse painted glass lamps

not for sale....mine all mine! lol

Permalink Reply by ElsiesAttic-Admin on July 15, 2011 at 1:41pm

I have to say Carnival Glass is my Fav and especially the Golds and orange colors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_glass

http://www.ddoty.com/

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 15, 2011 at 2:38pm

I love David Doty's site! :)

I am most partial to the greens and blues and purples. It has become so pricey to get the original carnival glass !!

Permalink Reply by LilacsNDreams on July 15, 2011 at 7:12pm

I enjoy David's site too! Oh, yes, carnival glass......course I like the purples, and the blues, and some of the yummy greens too!:) Pricey....yes, it has:)

Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on July 16, 2011 at 4:23pm

:-) Good to see you here Sandy.

would love to see photos of some of your fave Northwood pieces. I have only had a few pass through my shops over the years and all were so lovely.

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