“Glass is the buoyant medium. Phoenix-like, it literally emerges from fire and ash (and sand and a few other ingredients) and air plays a central role in giving it shape. Hollowness abounds and is celebrated. The process of making glass can be highly theatrical, the colors available are dazzling to the eye, the final object highly resistant to decay but simultaneously rather fragile, like an aging diva.”
William Warmus
https://contempglass.org/2012-celebration/info/a-brief-history-of-glass
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The story of glass is a story about art, history, culture, technology, science, craft and design, dating back to about 1500-1600 B.C., and was mostly cast or formed on a solid core. Glass was expensive to produce (it still remains as one of the most expensive artistic mediums) and required great skill resulting in its status as an elite substance, comparable to gold or silver and was mostly owned by Royals.
Glass was expensive to produce, requiring large quantities of scarce fuel to fire the furnaces, and required great skill to work while in a molten state. It was considered an elite substance and signifier of status, comparable to gold or silver, and it is probable that the material’s rarity contributed to its prestige. This established a pattern that has been followed continuously: glass remains today among the most expensive artistic materials to create.
A Brief History of Glass: https://contempglass.org/2012-celebration/info/a-brief-history-of-glass
