Glass is unlike any other medium: Its ability to absorb and reflect light makes it an ever-changing opportunity to integrate both natural and artificial light into visually stimulating, artistic ...
The French president Emmanuel Macron first announced the plans during a visit to the cathedral on December 8. He said he would initiate a competition inviting contemporary artists to submit designs ...
Not just the preserve of churches and cathedrals, stained glass windows can bring incredible colour, character and atmosphere ...
Sainte-Chapelle, the more petite Parisian structure in Notre Dame’s shadow, was built in 1248 as a house for King Louis IX to stash his collection of religious relics. The 50-foot-high stained glass ...
Glass has been with us at least from the first century BC, but most of the time we either look through it or drink from it – we don’t generally look at it. While the magnificent stained glass windows ...
18 December 2008Fujairah-based artist Haley Haddow displays her unique artwork in the resort's Tea and Dates lobby caf Fujairah, United Arab Emirates: Visitors to Le Mridien Al Aqah during the festive ...
A bolt of sunlight beamed through the studio window of Ariana Makau’s West Oakland company, Nzilani Glass Conservation, bringing life to the panes of stained glass windows scattered around the room.
We’ve all seen extraordinary stained glass windows in churches, museums and some friends’ homes. Art nouveau and art deco style homes and public buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...
I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...
Amid rows of newly published books and crowded aisles at the Damascus International Book Fair, visitors are pausing at an ...
For the project, which is about 12 miles inland from the ocean, Sedletzky took his cues from the work of two of trailblazing architects, bringing the clean modernism of Le Corbusier to the more ...