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Site Specific Custom Glass

Transform your clients interior space with custom glass lighting and site-specific glass.

One of the best parts about my business is the challenge to create something unique for a specific location, and bring transformation to the space.

What is my process?  How do I make the project a success?

I collaborate with architects, designers & clients to bring my glassmaking and design skills to meet their desires.

Each project has its own complexity that allows me to draw from previous experiences and to invent new creations.

By tuning into the surrounding environment, I am able to create a solution for my clients and transform interior spaces with glass and light.

Please contact me if you would like further information about any of my art glass and custom lighting.  Each piece is a functional, collectible piece of lighted sculpture signed by me, the artist.

I can work from any location with material samples, colors, and architectural plans.

Have an inspired day!

 

Julie

Written by: Julie
Illuminata
Tags: custom glass, site-specific
Posted in: artist, creative process, Design, General, LED Lighting, Pioggia, Raindrop, Venice | 3 Comments »


LED Low Energy Lighting

We are all concerned about the changes in the lighting codes and becoming energy efficient.   LED’s are the way of the future.  I also use xenon as a halogen replacement, for bright sparkly light.
Here is a project I did in Northern California for a luxury bathroom using LED’s and recycled metal.   It is part of the Pioggia series.  “Pioggia” means Rain in Italian.  
Individual glass raindrops made in the studio,  light up and transfer the light similarly to fiber optics.  The perforated steel creates a light/shadow effect.   Here, I have used a dimmable, warm-white LED system in the fixture.  Read more…

Julie

Written by: Julie
Illuminata
Tags: bathroom lighting, custom glass, custom lighting, design, LED, Lighting
Posted in: artist, creative process, Design, General, LED Lighting, Pioggia, Raindrop, Venice | 3 Comments »


Ciao Venezia

Murano, the glassmaking island of the Venetian lagoon is my destination this week.  I return to the magical world of boats and bridges, the secret island with fiery furnaces behind every wall.   Since the 9th century, glass has been made in Murano.  In 1291, Murano became the official glassmaking island isolating all the furnaces to one location to protect the buildings of Venice.

Venetian glassmakers, although secluded with their secret trade, and forbidden to leave the Republic, had privileges of wearing swords, and marrying their daughters into nobility.

Today, Murano, only 1.5 km across, inhabits about 5,000 people and hundreds of glass furnaces.  You can hear their fuel-driven hum and see the orange glow in the ancient window panes as you come across the lagoon at night. Glass sparkles in every storefront. Mecca for a glass artist. Read more…

Julie

Written by: Julie
Illuminata
Tags: glassmaking, history of glass, lagoon, maestro, Murano, Venice
Posted in: artist, creative process, Design, General, LED Lighting, Pioggia, Raindrop, Venice | 3 Comments »


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