Everyday Things: Glass

by Suzanne Slesin, Stafford Cliff, Daniel Rosensztroch

Glass encompasses a world of mass-produced but beautifully crafted glass containers from the past 150 years that can play an important role in our modern lives. It takes a stylish look at glasses, pitchers, bottles, jars, canisters, inkwells, vases, apothecary jars, lanterns, beakers and other simple objects that were familiar in the daily lives of our grandparents and that spark in us a recognition of our common roots and a feeling of connection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810906201
• ISBN13: 9780810906204
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A unique gift for people who enjoy coffee-table art

Everyday Things: Glass is a beauteous celebration of its title substance and all the countless decorative and practical things that can be wrought with it - including cruets, canisters, inkwells, lanterns, pitchers, and paperweights. Gorgeous, full-color photographs fill every page with an artist's eye for elegance, while the prose text offers intensely researched, enlightening commentary about the specific history of countless glass objects of art and everyday use. Suzanne Slesin (Homestyle magazine editor-in-chief), Daniel Rozensztroch (Paris-based author), and Stafford Cliff (London-based author), and Marie-Pierre Morel (Paris-based, professional photographer) draw upon their many years of expertise to effectively collaborate with Everyday Things: Glass resulting in a visual compendium that takes commonplace things and turns them into elements of majesty Everyday Things: Glass is enthusiastically recommended as a unique and unusual gift for people who enjoy coffee-table art and photography books.