UrbanGlass – Fete de Verre: FUTUR
Auction Ends: Apr 14, 2011 12:00 PM EDT

Live Auction Items

Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin "Tropical Twilight"

Item Number
L2
Estimated Value
8000 USD
Sold
2500 USD to Live Event Bidder

Live Event Item

This is a Live Event Only item.

Item Description

 

Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin
Tropical Twilight
2007
Triple Overlay, Glass, Wheel Cut
8,000

This is a Live Event Only item. Call Kristin at 718-625-3685 x211 or email kristin@urbanglass.org to set up a proxy bidder who will do your bidding the night of the live event.     

Item Special Note

Since 1994 Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin have been combining Italian cold-worked cutting techniques with Swedish blown glass color underlay and overlay. Originally inspired by Carlo Scarpa’s work with Venini in the 1930s and 40s, the pair has taken battuto where no one else has gone. Cutting through thin layers of color reveals more colors underneath, weaving pattern and color on the one hand and form and texture on the other. The vessel is a laboratory for new combinations in color and subtleties of form. It may reflect images and impressions found elsewhere in the world, in walls, urban landscapes, a river flowing downstream, twilight, dreams, as well as pure abstraction of geometry and color.

 

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