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Blenko: Cool '50s & '60s Glass

Blenko: Cool '50s & '60s Glass

Schiffer Publishing

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Named after its founder, Englishman William Blenko, Blenko Glass Company, Inc. began producing stained glass in America in the late nineteenth century. It remains one of the few glass factories in the United States still making modern hand blown production glass. Recently, collectors have been scooping up Blenko designs from the company's middle years of production, the 1950s and 1960s. Three outstanding designers were responsible for the entire design repertoire of that era—Winslow Anderson, Wayne Husted, and Joel Myers. Over 675 color photographs of Blenko glass (courtesy of Blenko Visitors' Center Museum, the Huntington Museum of Art, and private collections), detailed captions, information about the designers, the never-before-published 1960 catalog, bibliography, and index make this book a valuable reference.

About the Author

Leslie Piña, Ph.D. is the author and co-author of more than forty books on decorative arts and design, including Fifties Glass, circa Fifties Glass, and Popular '50s & '60s Glass: Color Along the River.

  • Product Type: Book, Hardcover
  • 208 pages, with 675 illustrations
  • Shipping Dimensions: 11.0 × 8.5  (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 lb (51.2 oz; 1451 g)
  • SKU010006536 | 9780764322501

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Schiffer Publishing

Located in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Books got its start in 1974 publishing historical reports using a mimeograph machine on the owner's kitchen table. A few years later, Schiffer moved to the basement of a barn on the family's farm property. More than 50 years later, Schiffer Publishing is still an independent publisher of 7,000 titles at the Book Farm in Atglen, PA, where visitors are welcome to browse the library.

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