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Custom Windows WoodLtdŽ Studio
offers truly artistic expression in contemporary art glass.
Exclusive designs, updated classics and custom design services set
WoodLtd apart as an alternative to common solutions and
off-the-shelf products. We design doors, large windows, entries, cabinet
door panels, privacy panels, skylight panels and room dividers. WoodLtdŽ Studio
custom glass serves the architectural, stained,
leaded and beveled art glass needs of homeowners, builders,
architects and interior designers around the world.
Art Glass Windows The skilled craftsmen at WoodLtdŽ Studio
individually hand make each piece in a very exacting way, paying
attention to every detail for strength as well as beauty. Unique
handles all glasswork from the point of idea conception through
finishing. Our custom glass studio offers more than glass for doors.
We also design glasswork for sidelights, transoms and windows. Our
specialized stained glass pieces for windows, lamps, mirrors, doors
and accessories hang in their showroom in quiet splendor. Our
artists work with designers, contractors, re-modelers and homeowners
to create the perfect doors and windows for all plans

Art Glass normally means the
modern art glass movement in which individual artists working alone
or with a few assistants to create works from molten glass in
relatively small furnaces of a few hundred pounds of glass. It began
in the early 1960s and showed continued growth through the end of
the century. The glass objects created are not primarily utilitarian
but are intended to make a sculptural or decorative statement. On
the market, their prices may range from a few hundred to tens of
thousands of dollars (US). The best known of the moderns is Dale
Chihuly who uses many of the best independent glass workers to
create his large and colorful works

History of Art Glass Prior to the early 1960s, art glass
would have referred to glass made for decorative use, usually by
teams of factory workers, taking glass from furnaces with a thousand
or more pounds of glass. This form of art glass, of which Tiffany
and Steuben in the U.S.A. and Gall in France are perhaps the best
known, grew out of the factory system in which all glass objects
were hand or mold blown by teams of 4 or more men. In fact, the turn
of the 19th Century was the height of the old art glass movement
while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical
bottle blowing and continuous window glass. In the factory, every
member of the team does the same job repeatedly turning out dozens
or hundreds of the same item in a days work.
Art in Art Glass In an art glass studio, ideally, "production
work" (goblets, vases, pitchers, etc.) shows more hand worked
variation than was allowed in pure factory work environment and each
piece shows some of the lead glass worker's creativity, the gaffer.
In addition to smaller production pieces, most studio glass workers
also try to turn out larger individual pieces which might be the
equivalent of a master piece in the journeyman system of guild and
factory work.
The Art Although today the word
art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is
has continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps the most concise
definition is its broadestart refers to all creative human
endeavors, excluding actions directly related to survival and
reproduction. From a wide perspective, art is simply a generic term
for any product of the creative impulse, out of which sprang all
other human pursuits such as science via alchemy, and religion via
shamanism. The term art offers no true definition besides those
based within the cultural, historical and geographical context in
which it is applied.
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