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Posts Tagged ‘Lalique’

  • November 23, 2014
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Celebrate Picture Book Month with books about glass

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 →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library
  • November 10, 2014
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Warning! Contents Fragile…

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 →

  • Posted in: Installations, Rakow Library
  • September 25, 2014
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Explain it to me: Casting a Glass Hawk Head

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 →

  • Posted in: Education, Glassmaking techniques/process, Programs, The Studio
  • July 28, 2014
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Glass and the Tour de France

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 →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library
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