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tracy glover designer profile By Jana Schiowitz Product Photos by Greystone Studio Photo by M. Benedicte Verley Photography blown away Even though it’s temperamental, fragile, and takes an incredible amount of patience to work with, Tracy Glover loves glass. “It’s an intriguing material because the process of making it is so foreign and the results can be so magical,” says the Cranston, Rhode Island-based glassblower. Glover’s crafty parents were a big inf luence early on—her father, an artist and graphic designer showed her how to paint with watercolors and sculpt with clay, while her mother taught her how to reupholster furniture. “We seldom just sat around watching TV,” she says. “If the TV were on, it would be in the background while we were doing projects.” Growing up in the outskirts of Washington, DC, the young designer would ride her bike into the capital and draw the gardens of the embassies and take classes at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She began her college career at Virginia Tech studying architecture, but she transferred after a photo of a woman blowing glass in a RISD course catalog intrigued her. “When I applied to RISD as a glass major, I did not expect that I would stay with it,” she says. “But I loved the challenge of learning to work with the material.” After school, Glover put her glassblowing skills to work—she attended and taught at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington; worked on a sculpture at the Center for Creative Glass in New Jersey; took jobs at three different production glass studios as a glassblowing assistant; and then in ’94, built her own studio creating vases, candlesticks, and drinking glasses. Today she has gone from tabletop designs to an expansive lighting line. “One of the reasons I started making lamps was to get the glass out of the cabinet and have it be a functioning part of everyday life,” she says. Also new is a collection of drawer pulls and door knobs. And as with everything she makes, Glover deliberately works with a limited color palette and Old-World Venetian glassblowing techniques. “I think it's easy to be seduced by so many possibilities of color combinations, but sometimes that results in pieces you might not want to live with forever,” she explains. Her one-of-a-kind pieces can be found in the Bellagio and Mirage in From top: Tracy Glover; new hardware options include Seafoam on brushed brass from the Prospect Hill Door Knob Collection, which launched this past spring; and the Providence Vases in barrel, teardrop, and tulip shapes with varying color combinations. www.hdmag.com October 2009
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - October 2009
Hospitality Design - October 2009
Contents
Online Contents
From the Editor
News
London Roundup
Calendar
Designer Profile
To Market
To Market
Special Feature
Special Feature
Chrome
Michelberger
Seeko’o
Bungalow
Tokyo Disneyland Hotel
The Original
Back Space
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Hospitality Design - October 2009 - Special Feature
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Hospitality Design - October 2009 - Bungalow
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Hospitality Design - October 2009 - The Original
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