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The Glass Pumpkin Patch
The Glass Pumpkin Patch
New Pumpkins!
It’s that Pumpkin time of year! Autumn is officially here and as we see the first leaves begin to turn we put up the sign in front and invite everyone down to the glass pumpkin patch!
We make pumpkins through the summer to be ready for the fall of course. But, after a while we want to stretch our glass blowing legs and do something differently for a minute. And then, of…
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Remembering Al
Al keeps a piece hot at the bench in 2012
Al came into our life about 10 years ago… He was just eighteen and pumping gas at the local station. He had been looking for something a little more fulfilling and challenging to take on and came into the shop one day. We talked and I noticed his intellect right away. He had the ability to carry on and keep up with interesting conversations on…
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The staff here at Belle Mead Hot Glass was on a hunt for a mold. Specifically, a mold for a dreidel. We use these molds to blow some of the classic ornament figures like the snowmen…
Hand Blown and painted glass ornament made here at Belle Mead Hot Glass
Hand blown and then painted in. From a mold made here in the shop at Belle Mead Hot Glass
Unfortunately, the only one we’d been able to find was…
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About two years ago we finished the installation of one of the previous blog topics: this set of sculptures in the lobby of Embassy Suites at LAX.
These sculptures (they are spot lit from below instead of lit from within) were designed to bring some color and light to this very large, very tall atrium.
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
Although the space is not too high to…
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New Sealife Installation...it grows...
New Sealife Installation…it grows…
The Sealife series of chandeliers and sculptures began in 2014 and has been constant source of interest and discovery for the team at Belle Mead Hot Glass. Because we are evoking an maritme landscape each time there is tremendous variation between the installations.
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
The first Sealife…
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Glass Master of the Universe...
Glass Master of the Universe…
Recently while scrolling through my Facebook feed I came across a video of a young glassblower. This up-and-coming young man started in my shop quite a few yeears ago. And, having been absorbed in my own work, I was startled to see how much he has developed as an artist.
from Jake’s Treasure Series of Vases… http://www.hotglassalley.com/glassware/glass-series/treasure-series/
https://www.artfulh…
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Dusty grapes...
Dusty grapes…
With all of the chandeliers we’ve hung over the years we field a fair amount of enquiries about how to keep them clean.
Recently we have gotten quite a few questions about the various chandelier cleaning sprays on the market. If you haven’t seen them, these spays are a solution meant to be sprayed onto a chandlier while it is still hanging in place. The piece doesn’t have to be disassembled and…
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It's Really Heating Up in Here...
It’s Really Heating Up in Here…
This week has been the warmest so far this summer here at the shop. We’re not really sure how warm because the thermometer stops at a certain point…
Thermometer
The heat is often part of what draws people in to glass blowing…
The Dragon!
It seems scary, and somewhat dangerous, but it sets this work apart. Glassblowers reading this post may roll their eyes at this. It’s considered uncool…
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Blowing Up Balloons...
Blowing Up Balloons…
Blowing up Balloons…
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
Over the years I’ve made a few different sizes of Balloons in glass and a few different styles…
But, despite the complexity of the Dean Koons style animal sculptures, or the functionality of the hummingbird feeders I am constantly called back to the most traditional of forms. There is something…
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X 2
X 2
What does it take to put together a project like these spheres?
First the concept, drawings and sketches, color choices, engineering and ordering materials; but then comes the actual assembly….
Each sphere is composed of 20 triangular panels measuring 3′ x 3′ x 3′. Each Panel is composed of 184 separate pieces of steel. Each of those is cut to length, and then prepped for welding. …
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Once Upon A Time
Once Upon A Time
“Tell me a story?”
“OK”
“A long story?”
“No, not a long story. It is too late”
“How long will it be?”
” About four minutes and thirty seconds long”
“A true story?”
“How about a partly true story?”
“OK…”
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Once upon a timethere was a princess who lived in a castle in a place called Naples. This Naples is the one in the kingdom of Florida,…
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Goings on at Bellemead Hot Glass
Goings on at Bellemead Hot Glass
For this post I thought I would just check in with an update about the current shop goings-on…
Corning Museum of Glass
We all took off to visit the Corning Museum of Glass last Sunday and watched Lino Tagliapietra create a few amazing pieces with his talented team. It is always a pleasure to see a master at work and the team he has assembled is fantastic in their own right.
Lino…
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Falling Flowers
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
And Now for Something Completely Different…
A local customer came to us looking for a chandelier that would add lots of light to the space and have a vibrant and fun feel. The family wanted the area to be brightly lit, but also to avoid boring ceiling spots, unsightly and glaring bare bulbs and run of the mill pendant lamps…
Bellemead…
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The Orangerie?
Orangerie? can you say that in a sentence?
Bellemead Hot Glass, Robert Kuster,Hillsborough NJ 08844
I mentioned in an earlier post about how I was inspired to take up glassblowing because of my experience watching a glassblower in Venice make a flower. And, I’ve told you about how I went to Venice and watched the amazing floral chandeliers come to life there.This post is about how a flower…
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The day we got the call part 5
The day we got the call part 5
Why is it so hot, it’s April!
The next day after the Acuity team had gone, It was time to get to work. We had proven we could do the Job. All the production and assembly issues had been worked out. We had one sphere nearly completed and now it was all about organization, logistics and hard work. I had calculated about 12,000 pieces of glass and 85,000 welds and pieces of metal to be cut for all…
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The day we got the call part 4
The day we got the call part 4
Our Guests Arrive…
The group of six executives from Acuity was due to arrive in the early morning. I had rented a Lincoln Navigator to shuttle us all around in, figuring that if I had come this far I should go all in. And so, nervous but excited and both drooling and lisping I put on a blazer (a twice yearly event) and headed to the Trenton Airport. They arrived right on time in the company…
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The day we got the call, Part Three
The day we got the call, Part Three
Build it and they will come
As i mentioned earlier, We agreed to assemble the first sphere. The question was where. At the time I had 11 acres in Montgomery Twsp NJ and a half of it was wooded, the problem most of the wooded area was second growth fields. loaded with ceders which would never support the 5000 pound structure but behind the house were two 60 foot ash trees which were about 10…
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