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Posts Tagged ‘art’

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
 Torbay’s most luxurious and bespoke beauty salon and spa. The work consists of an Ornate gilded reverse glass sign 16ft x 42″, Water gilded in 24crt gold leaf and 12crt gilded numbers with matt burnished bevels on a deep brown background.
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Tags: art, artwork, fascia, glass sign, gold leaf, hand crafted, hand made, house of beauty, mirror, shop front, shop sign, signwriting, torquay, victorian glass, wellswood Posted in Designs, Portfolio | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
 London’s second smallest museum can be found above this Notting Hill bar. The museum has included a vintage copper still, Prohibition-era bottles of the stuff and antiquarian cocktail books. It also contains the Ginstitute, where Mr Jake F Burger holds well-researched classes on the subject.
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Tags: 1900's, antique mirror, art, brilliant cutting, cut glass, david smith, design, etching, gin, ginstitute, gold leaf, jake burger, london, mirror, ornamental glass, portobello road, portobello star, pub mirror, signwriting, silvering, victorian, victorian glass, wheel cutting Posted in Designs, Portfolio, Turn Of The Century | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
 ‘Knowsley Alphabet’ by Gordon Young, commissioned by KMBC Leisure & Cultural services for Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park, Huyton, Knowlsey. The glass is 6ft by 4ft and is half inch laminated. (it was heavy!) (more…)
Tags: antique mirror, art, artwork, brilliant cutting, david smith, glass sign, Gold Leaf Workshop, handcrafted, martial arts, pictorial, signwriting, steam punk, victorian glass, vintage, water gilding, wheel cutting Posted in Portfolio, Step By Step, Turn Of The Century | 8 Comments »
Monday, June 6th, 2011
 This is one of two mirrors recently completed. The mirrors were hand made using the traditional Embossing and brilliant cutting techniques from over 100 years ago. (more…)
Tags: antique mirror, antique mirrors, art, brilliant cutting, glass sign, gold leaf, handcrafted, reverse glass, silvered, ver eglomise, vintage, water gilding, wheel cutting Posted in Portfolio, Step By Step, Turn Of The Century | 16 Comments »
Monday, May 30th, 2011
 I made this piece of glass art for my friends daughter who is crazy mad on anything to do with Jacko . (more…)
Tags: 60's, 70's, 80's, art, black and white, famous, frits, Hollywood, Jackson 5, Jackson Five, Michael Jackson, MJ, seventies, singer, sixties, slumped glass Posted in Designs, Portfolio | 2 Comments »
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