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.
Posts Tagged ‘victorian glass’
The House of Beauty – Wellswood, Torquay
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013The Ginstitute, Portobello Road, London, England
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.
L is for Lear – The Nonsence Alphabet, Knowsley, Liverpool
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…)
Monogramme Glass Sign.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Monogramme Glass Sign . A decorative reverse glass sign with various techniques inluding brilliant cutting and acid etching. (more…)
The Golden Age of Reverse Glass Signs and Signwriting
Monday, March 28th, 2011
A few images of times gone by of the older generation of craftsmen at work in there studios, brilliant cutting and glass embossing. (more…)
Golds that Glisten
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Hand made reverse glass advertising sign using over 100 year old techniques. This Glass sign was fisrt hand drawn and designed onto paper. I then took the design and built it on computer refining shapes back and fourth. (more…)
Dave Smith Victorian Reverse Glass Sign
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Shamrock Whiskey Glass
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
This glass was a private commission for a restaurant in Bath UK. Three of these panels were made, they are silvered and glue chipped. Size 3ftx2ft made in 1999. (more…)
Summer (Letterheads Magazine Cover 97)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
This panel was designed for the 1997 front cover of Letterhead’s magazine, USA It is an acid-etched glass piece, 3ft x 30″s which employs acid etching, glazes of transparent paint and gilding, finger blending was also used, the rose is watergilded over an acid stipple and then cross hatched and finally painted behind with black japan.. (more…)
Letterheads Glass Signs
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
The glass signs in this section were projects for Letterhead gatherings that I have attended here in the UK. In 1995 I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Letterheads 20 Big Ones meet in Denver, Colorado USA, hosted by Mark and Rose Oatis. This gave me the chance to meet Noel Weber, a top glass artist and signmaker from Boise, Idaho. (more…)
