| Art glass normally means the modern art glass | | | | referred toglass made for decorative use, usually |
| movement inwhich individual artists working alone | | | | by teams of factory workers, takingglass from |
| or with a few assistants to create worksfrom | | | | furnaces with a thousand or more pounds of |
| molten glass in relatively small furnaces of a few | | | | glass. This form of artglass, of which Tiffany and |
| hundred pounds ofglass. It began in the early | | | | Steuben in the U.S.A., Galléin France and |
| 1960s and showed continued growth through the | | | | Hoya Crystal in Japan and Kosta |
| endof the century. The glass objects created are | | | | class=SpellE>Boda in Sweden are perhaps the |
| not primarily utilitarian but areintended to make a | | | | best known, grew out of thefactory system in |
| sculptural or decorative statement. On the | | | | which all glass objects were hand or mold blown |
| market, theirprices may range from a few | | | | by teams of 4or more men. In fact, the turn of |
| hundred to tens of thousands of dollars (US). | | | | the 19th Century was the height of the oldart |
| Thebest known of the moderns are Dale Chihuly, | | | | glass movement while the factory glass blowers |
| who usesmany of the best independent glass | | | | were being replaced bymechanical bottle blowing |
| workers to create his large and colorfulworks and | | | | and continuous window glass. In the factory, |
| Hans Godo Frabel,who creates his art together | | | | everymember of the team does the same job |
| with a team of studio glass artists. | | | | repeatedly turning out dozens or hundredsof the |
| Prior to the early 1960s, art glass would have | | | | same item each day. |