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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Poland => Topic started by: Leni on February 04, 2005, 10:23:45 AM
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While shopping in my local branch of John Lewis yesterday I saw some fantastic pieces of glass! On investigation I found they all had a label saying 'LSA'. Also, some were identified as 'Made in Poland'.
The quality varied, some being fairly ordinary, albeit very well made, while some items were really beautiful, the design and craftsmanship being absolutely stunning :shock:
So I came home and Googled LSA, only to find they are an 'umbrella' organisation, who subcontract the glass factories in Poland!
So my question is this ... How do I find out who made what? None of the glass is signed or identified in any way other than the LSA label.
Anyone know anything about this?
(BTW, I didn't buy anything yet, but fully intend to go back and shop, shop, shop! :D )
Leni
p.s.
Yay! :D
I Googled again and, via the Polish Chamber of Commerce, answered my own question! :lol:
Go and look up Adam Jablonski.
I have just dribbled all over my keyboard! :shock:
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Hi Leni
I became aware of LSA only fairly recently.
I knew that Poland made some nice glassware ( we are talking useable glass here aren't we ?) as I had come across their website while looking for something else.
Later at a function at the Tate Modern eating designer chips from a very stylish tazza style bowl, I suddenly stopped and stared hard at it..... and thought ...that's Polish.... after the event I lingered and when few people were left I raised it and sure enough a label LSA.
Later again, clearing out a kitchen cupboard I thought - I don't need all these small bowls ....I started to sort them. One caught my attention ....very nicely made and finished ...and again found the label LSA. It compared very well with a Dartington bowl of similar size - if not more stylish ! and head and shoulders above others quality wise.
Perhaps they are a remnant of the old communist system whereby many factories were amalgamated into larger organisations. Perhaps subsequent privatization sold off the individual factories and left the parent as a central selling organization ? Just guesses.
I'm surprised that their quality varies so much.
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Leni, so you discovered Jablonski Here is one of my favorite pcs. Please enjoy. Terry in Iowa
http://tinypic.com/1j9fyb
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Hello Leni and Peter,
I've been looking at LSA too, but in the context of trying to find out about some glasses and a decanter I'd bought with Krosno labels on them. (beautiful heavy stuff I found in a couple of charity shops). In lesley Jackson's 20th Century Glass, p.11, it says:-
"LSA, which stands for Lubkowski Saunders and Associates, was established in Britain in 1973 by Janusz Lubkowski and Tony Saunders to import giftware from Poland. Since the mid-eighties it has specialised in glass, numbering Habitat, Selfridges and John Lewis among its chief costomers. The aim of the company has been to produce attractive modern domestic glassware at an affordable price. Early products included simple water sets designed and made at the Krosno factory in Poland. Today, however, all the glass sold under the LSA name is designed by the company's own in-house team, and it now uses several Polish glassworks to manufacture its designs." :D , Sue.
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Leni, so you discovered Jablonski Here is one of my favorite pcs. Please enjoy. Terry in Iowa
http://tinypic.com/1j9fyb
Terry this is beautiful, thanks for sharing it with us. :)
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Leni, so you discovered Jablonski Here is one of my favorite pcs. Please enjoy. Terry in Iowa
http://tinypic.com/1j9fyb
Hi Terry
Good to see someone else has discovered these fantastic pieces. I am very fortunate that within a couple of miles from me are 2 glassshops that deal only in Polish glass....if not I doubt I would have come across them. Since last summer I have bought 6 , the last one just an hour ago, but the proprietor advises that she does not think that Jablonski will be making any more within this style......I did ask if I could have his number so I could remonstrate and let him know how popular I feel these will become ( and desrevedly so too ). Its also a pity that he is not better represented on the web . Anyway...superb pieces.
Regareds
Gareth
Morgan48
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I'm confused !!!
So we art talking Art Glass as well as glassware.
Ok But
Leni what is Adam Jablonski's relationship to LSA ?
Is his work Identified as his ?
The label on Terry's piece doesn't look at all like the LSA label on my bowl (not art glass). What does it say Terry ?
Sue, How does Krosno tie in with LSA ?
I have a Krosno whiskey bought from Habitat in about 1985. It had a Krosno label on it. I'd dearly love to get my hands on another to replace the one which broke.
Gareth - Where are these Polish glass shops ? I promise I won't buy any Jablonski !!!
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Hi Peter, I'm afraid I don't know any more than what was written in 20th Century Factory Glass, as quoted above in my last posting, about how Krosno and LSA are associated. I don't know if my decanter is anything like your whisky one, and I'm afraid I can't yet work the digital camera on the computer (severe technophobia and camera phobia - I can't say photophobia, as that is fear of light!) to post a picture. The decanter I have has an incredibly thick base - about 2 inches deep and it is sort of lobed, almost like a rounded deep sea oil drill bit in overall shape. The stopper is T-shaped, the grip about 2/3 inches deep.
I'm going to have to learn how to use the camera, post pictures and links, as I don't feel I'm joining in properly here yet! You'll all just have to bear with me on that one :oops: Cheers, Sue
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So we art talking Art Glass as well as glassware.
Leni what is Adam Jablonski's relationship to LSA ?
I Googled 'LSA' and 'Polish glass' and got the Polish Chamber of Commerce site (amongst others), which led me to a link to the Jablonski Crystal factory, which I assume is one of the factories LSA uses.
It also led me Adam Jablonski's art glass, which had me drooling all over the keyboard! :shock:
Presumably, Jablonski signs his art glass pieces, but his factory produces the more 'general' - but IMHO also very beautiful - glassware on sale in John Lewis!
Gareth - Where are these Polish glass shops ? I promise I won't buy any Jablonski !!!
I won't promise any such thing!!! Go on Gareth, where are they? Where? :twisted:
Leni
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Leni/Peter
I meant to also say that when I spoke to the proprietor, Polish lady who often returns to Poland on glass buying trips, she had not heard of LSA....but which I realise doesn't mean anything !!
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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there is no link at all between Jablonsky and LSA. LSA is a british based dealer who used to sell Krosno glass, now they spread their orders over various Polish glass makers. They sell to furniture and decorator outlets all over Europe - they're a brand name, not a glass maker, and their design activity is limited.
Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed. No connection.
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there is no link at all between Jablonsky and LSA. LSA is a british based dealer who used to sell Krosno glass, now they spread their orders over various Polish glass makers.
Does this not include the Jablonsky Crystal factory? I presumed this was the case as there is a link to their site in the page of the Polish Chamber of Commerce site which talks about LSA.
Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed. No connection.
Does the "" in the above quote mean you don't think it's really 'art' glass? Can you say why?
Also, I may be a cheapskate but $200 for a Jablonsky vase doesn't seem 'cheap' art glass to me! :?
When you speak of "quite considerable series", are you referring to what Adam Jablonsky himself makes, or what the factory which bears his name turns out?
I admit I am confused again now :(
Leni
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Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed. No connection.
Good evening
Would appreciate what criteria you use in order to attach the label cheap "art" glass. Is this in relation to design, finish.originality and what quite are the distinguishing features you apply that actually determines a piece of glass as "art" glass, whether cheap or not. Would I be jumping the gun by suggesting that the argument would be difficult to justify in terms less than subjective.
The brevity of your comment would appear to suggest lacking in merit but I'm not sure that this was your intention.
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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Cheap has different connotations in different cultures and is not necessarily derisive.
It is generally accepted that Art Glass is glass produced by factories that goes beyond utility function and form. Be it designed by a named designer or a faceless one.
Glass Art refers to work that is produced by artists in the medium of glass.
Price has more to do with galleries for unestablished artists and reputation for successful artists. There are many artists using glass as a medium who produce very cheap items, plenty on eBay, but $200 is probably a median price for a piece of blown glass in a relatively straightforward manner and sold through a gallery.
Good, bad or indifferent is usually subjective. Some love the Drunken bricklayers art glass and others loathe it.
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I'm sure they're honourable glass makers, I'm sure their intentions are sincere, but Jablonsky are the curse of the antique trade. Picture an antique fair with 1500 stalls, and on 1000 stalls you see identical Jablonsky vases in three different sizes. That is stretching the art in art glass. Worse than that, most dealers seem to think they are offering something exquisite and exclusive, in stead of lumpy and mass produced. You were right to notice a slight hint of disapproval - I just don't like their products.
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I am not really in the position to comment what is art glass and what is not. However, I would like to comment on the word 'cheap'. Obviously I am not a native speakear, so I did not grow up with the words cheap and inexpensive. But I am being told off by my american husband if I use the word cheap, other than if I mean to be derogatory. So now to me too, 'cheap' is never worth of buying, because the quality of the item, whatever it is, is too low.
Inexpensive is the word I would like to be used in connection of art glass as well. Or a bargain buy.
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I'm sure they're honourable glass makers, I'm sure their intentions are sincere, but Jablonsky are the curse of the antique trade. Picture an antique fair with 1500 stalls, and on 1000 stalls you see identical Jablonsky vases in three different sizes.
Good morning
Somewhat surprised at you posting regarding jablonski flooding the antique trade. Is this something peculiar to the Netherlands because it is not something I have noticed here. The only large fair I attend is Alexandra Palace and as an avid glass collector, and the owner of a couple of fine Jablonski pieces, it is something I would have spotted and could hear myself thinking " oh .. not something I expected to see "..
Could other members comment on the proliferation, or otherwise, of Jablonski at major UK fairs.
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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Most definitely on all antique fairs in Holland since about 5 years, but also found in Germany, Belgium and France and as far afield as Scandinavia and the US.
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Could other members comment on the proliferation, or otherwise, of Jablonski at major UK fairs.
Yes, please do! 'Cos I'll be there like a shot buying them up!
Especially if I can get them for under $200 :lol:
Sorry you don't like them Ivo - more for those of us who do? Good job we don't all like the same thing, or the prices would go even higher, and Ms Cheapskate would have even less glass in her collection. :wink:
But Ivo, do you really mean the pieces made by Adam Jablonski himself, or other stuff coming out of the Jablonski Crystal factory? I am unsure of exactly what the 'mass-produced' stuff is like? Any pics? The big vases shown on the Polish Chamber of Commerce site looked difficult to mass-produce - other than in the way that, for example, a Caithness paperweight (even in a limited edition of 500) or Pershire millefiori weights could be said to be 'mass-produced'.
Also, I'm still unsure if LSA do supply Jablonski glass under their label, or if the mention of the two names on the PCoC site confused me. You seemd to think they don't. Can you clarify this for me? :?
Does anyone know exactly which factory or factories are covered by the LSA label? (Back to my original question, from which I got rather distracted :oops: )
Leni
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Hi Leni
If you have not seen this link I'm sure you will appreciate it....I really cant get my head around these as considered "cheap...but to each their own I suppose.
www.chamberofcommerce.pl/glass/jablon/vases.html
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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These are beautiful Gareth, thanks for the link. I've not come across Jablonski before so I was at a loss in this thread really, but I think I'm becoming a fan of this glassware also. :)
All I'd really seen before of Polish glass was that which my (Polish) stepmother had brought back with her from visits home over 20 years ago, and these were lovely too. Very attractive elegant wine glasses finished with what she said were platinum rims rather than gold (no pictures I'm afraid, and no chance of any either now). (OT - She brought me back some china with platinum rims also - the china isn't as good quality as English Bone China, but still very pretty designs.)
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Ivo doesn't need me to defend him but I will anyway. It's not easy to speak plainly when there is a chance it will offend but he does it and I respect him for it.
In the 9 months or so I was been a member here I have also learned to take what he says seriously and generally at face value. If he's not sure he says nothing or makes his uncertainty plain. His pronouncements are infrequent but have the gravitas of many years of painstaking and careful research.
Now I'm not saying that there are not others here who are to be taken less seriously. I'm just explaining Ivo's style to those you don't know him so well.
On the lack of links between Jablonski and LSA I think you can take his word for it. The only link perhaps being Poland. Equally his comment "quite considerable series" - a touch of diplomacy there.
Let's remember also that English is not his native tongue, while I happen to know he uses it better than many English people. Dutch is a direct and plain speaking language - I appreciate the trouble he takes in selecting from our huge vocabulary.
The link to the very large and very wide rage of Jablonski vase designs in fact bears him out. This selection illustrates that this is a significantly sized commercial operation - not studio production. Apart from consulting with gaffers on new lines, I doubt Mr Jablonski has any part in production itself. So in that sense there will be no distinction between his production and that of the factory.
The vase designs are generally bright, cheerful and a few are a little adverturous but for the most part designed for popular appeal rather than artistic expression IMHO.
Leni you are NOT a cheapskate at all. It's just that newly made fine Art Glass in small series is very very expensive. Glass artists who produce in studio with small runs to technically exacting specifications do not have the economies of scale enjoyed by the Jablonski operation.
While buying any art is a matter of individual tase, over time one learns to appreciate the finer points - differences which may seem small but make a huge impact on the overall item.
The experience of Art Glass is, perhaps more than many other media, best "in the flesh". Even top quality photos can unintentionally mislead or rather not give an indication of the full range of color and effect of a piece - let alone the tactile element.
Some of the makers of those shown on the american link I sent may well also produce in larger series than a studio would but generally in smaller quantities than a full scale factory operation. I urge you to look very closely at some and compare.
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Hi Peter
I dont think Ivo could have put it any more concicesly when he said " I just dont like their products" and surely only the ignorant or prejudiced might deign to argue with his absolute right to say so. My question to him was from interest in what it was he found so objectionable, particularly as others have an almost opposite opinion. As it is of current comment I would say that I see very little , if any, merit in the Whitefriars flavour of the month lumps..... and I suppose if pressed my argument would have little justification other than taste...and in whatever way that was considered.
I'd much rather spend over a £1000 on a vast array of other glass than a large banjo!!!.....I just dont get it but then quite happy to leave it for those who do.
Your link to the USA site was excellent....some very desireable pieces. In fact I was surprised at how inexpensive the pieces by Robert Eickholt are... and in line with one of your earlier comments is this because they have quite large production rates rather than studio ones??
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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Hi Gareth
Terry would be much better placed to comment on Eickholt, both in terms of quality and quantity produced, as he has some pieces of theirs and is out glass hunting most of the time at week-ends - unlike me :( In fact thats what he's doing now (grrrrrr).
I don't think it's a question of finding Jablonski's designs objectionable in any way - more that just not as good as they could be for the money Thats my appraisal in a nutshell anyway.
Sometimes it's impossible to say why you don't like something. I don't like Victorian frilly stuff for example - it actually sends a shivver down my spine - but Idon't know why. ...something in my childhood perhaps.
I also happen to agree about Whitefriars. I'm not that impressed with much of their 50s 60s 70s stuff either. I don't dislike it - it just doesn't do it for me. However I have made it my business to find out about it, as much to satisfy my curiousity, as to what all the fuss and high prices is all about, than anything.
Altho I do quite like the Banjo - but not in any colors it was produced !!!
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Just another thought having a wander through the expansive wastelands between my ears........where then does quality/quantity etc place itself with regards to munufacturers such as Lalique Daum Orrefors and etc
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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Ivo doesn't need me to defend him but I will anyway. It's not easy to speak plainly when there is a chance it will offend but he does it and I respect him for it.
As indeed do I Peter! :)
I have no problem with him not liking Jablonski's work, and I trust him to know what he's talking about if he says there's no link between LSA and the Jablonski Crystal Factory, although this was not clear to me in my first investigations into LSA.
This selection illustrates that this is a significantly sized commercial operation - not studio production. Apart from consulting with gaffers on new lines, I doubt Mr Jablonski has any part in production itself. So in that sense there will be no distinction between his production and that of the factory.
I can understand that, but I having done further research now and seen various galleries which refer to Adam Jablonski being "awarded 12 gold medals" and examples of his work having been purchased by the Corning Glass Museum, I thought surely he can't just be producing "cheap, lumpy, mass-produced" glass, as Ivo sees it! :shock:
Leni you are NOT a cheapskate at all. It's just that newly made fine Art Glass in small series is very very expensive.
Well, it's nice of you to say so, but I reckon I am, 'cos I'm not rich enough to be anything else, really! :( That's not to say I wouldn't LOVE to buy some of the glass on the link you sent - thank you, by the way - I have bookmarked it for when I win the lottery! :roll:
I have to say I didn't like ALL of them by any means, and some I didn't like as much as some of the Adam J pieces - this one, for example (copyright the Polish Chamber of Commerce website, presumably ??) (http://tinypic.com/1jqc5l)
But I wouldn't say no to a David Lotton Clematis Reflection vase or bowl, for example, if anyone feels like treating me :lol:
BTW, Still waiting to see if someone can tell me which factories LSA DO use! :?
Leni
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Gareth
If I were in the market for new glass I would not buy any of those three companies.
I would look for small studio producers which I'm not well up on but one which sticks in my head and heart is Blowzone
http://www.blowzone.co.uk/
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BTW, Still waiting to see if someone can tell me which factories LSA DO use! :?
Leni
I am sure that LSA are not about to divulge who produces their designs - whether Krosno, Irena, Wresniak or any of the other 60 glass works nobody ever heard of in Poland and really, it is of no consequence. LSA supply the drawings and the stickers - the rest is strictly internal. Another company working in the same style is Leonardo (Glaskoch, Germany). It does not matter to them if the wares are produced in Poland, Romania, India or China. It is just a matter or price and quality.
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I would look for small studio producers which I'm not well up on but one which sticks in my head and heart is Blowzone
http://www.blowzone.co.uk/
OH WOW! That link WAS AMAZING! Incredible art of any kind makes me cry....and those water features, the hands...the angels!
The most original stuff I've seen in an eon. Ooooo that did it for me! <big sigh> Thanks!
Max xx
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Blowzone is of course Iestyn Davies who started out as a designer for Stuart Strathearn. Some examples are shown here LINK (http://www.voloeditions.com/Strathearn/StrSS001.htm) more will be added in the next few months, so you get an idea of the development he has made since then.
Just seen one on eBay 3780499876 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=91527&item=3780499876)
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Gareth
If I were in the market for new glass I would not buy any of those three companies.
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Certainly me neither Peter....my question was simply addressing the comparative issues raised regarding quantity and quality and how one apparently, according to some, tends to alter the respective balance of the other. I dont really feel that the companies mentioned compromise the quality of their product albeit that they are in many respects operating a mass production business.
These companies products certainly are not inexpensive ( I find I now have to try and avoid the word cheap...daft )) so therefore one of the previous arguements based on quantity is not supported here. I must point out that I am not comparing Jablonski with these but this is really quite secondary to the proposition of quantity being linked in any way with issue of quality........anyway lets digress.........this is giving me indegestion.........
I find I have an appreciation of limited editions very much in conflict with my common sense....to the extent that if its a one-off and very desirable I seem to stand a couple of inches taller.....which inevitably at times leaves me feeling bothery rediculous............love it !!!!
Regards
Gareth
Morgan48
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Back to LSA Glassware
I don't think anybody knows which factories LSA use Leni and I don't think you'll ever find out. It's quite possible that the LSA do not wish that information to be made public.
It would seem that they wish to promote the LSA "Brand" and that the factories they buy from are quite happy with this arrangement. Similar arrangements have been known before.
This is the Space Comport I saw at the Tate Modern LINK (http://www.purplesunrise.com/cgi-bin/miva?pur/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1&Product_Code=LSAscom&Category_Code=LSA-G)
a nice piece of modern design and very reasonably priced glassware.
Much more LSA on that site.
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Tongue in cheek question, re space comport description on the last link:
"the base is half solid glass"
what's the other half made of, then? :lol: :lol:
Super-cooled liquid?
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Peter, so sorry but in rereading this thread you aske me a question and I simply overlooked it. The lable on my Jablonski pc. says "Unique Crystal Jablonski Hand made in Poland" No mention of LSA at all. Terry
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The lable on my Jablonski pc. says "Unique Crystal Jablonski Hand made in Poland" No mention of LSA at all. Terry
I'm sorry, I seem to have started this by my initial equiry about LSA and subsequent search on the Polish Chamber of Commerce website. I now accept, after Ivo's expert intervention - thank you Ivo - that Jablonksi is NOT connected to LSA. I apologise for causing this confusion :oops:
At least I 'discovered' Adam Jablonski as a result! AND was pointed to a lot of other wonderful 'Names' by Peter - thank you for that Peter!
Leni, Still happily learning! :D
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I am sure that LSA are not about to divulge who produces their designs - whether Krosno, Irena, Wresniak or any of the other 60 glass works nobody ever heard of in Poland and really, it is of no consequence. LSA supply the drawings and the stickers - the rest is strictly internal.
I think that's a great pity :(
If I see a piece of art which I really like I want to know who made it, who designed it, even who taught them, where did they learn their craft?
As I said in the thread in which I was helped to identify my Vadan vase, I feel the need to give credit to the artist. IMO LSA are, by their attitude and their secrecy, in some way 'cheating' the craftsperson or persons out of the credit due to them :evil:
There is an analogy in another interest of mine. In the '60's I was very interested in popular music, not slavishly following one particular band or another but particularly following the movement of particular musicians. (An example many people will know is Eric Clapton. We first heard him playing with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and then followed his movement on through groups including the super-group Cream to finally achieve his recognised status as a solo artist.) It was fun to listen to the development of talent from sometimes tentative beginnings to its full flowering.
In the same way I like to see an artist in glass develop, often learning from another craftsperson with whom they have worked and then moving on to start their own company (e.g. as many of the Scottish paperweight artists did and do). If LSA and similar such organisations conceal the identity of their designers and of the glass factories they use, how can we 'talent spot' and watch the development of the artists whose work we admire?
Ivo says it is of no consequence. (I assume by this he means of no consequence to LSA, not to him?) I disagree with this, and am very sorry that no one has heard of the Polish glass factories he mentions! If I was a worker in one of those factories I would feel oppressed and undervalued. Even the designers who supply the drawings which Ivo says LSA provides are being 'cheated' out of the recognition they deserve.
Ho hum :(
Soap box put away :oops:
Leni
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With manufactured goods it is quite common for several people to be involved in the design and it is quite legitimate to only use a company or other name as a trade mark.
After all much art, traditionally, was executed by students/apprentices/assistants under direction of the artist.
Henry Moore and Bridget Riley being more modern examples. The buyers of their works are well of this.
Same applies in glass to great designers such as Keith Murray and Peter Behrens, I have never seen a complaint that Keith Murrays glass is not correctly attributed.
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Not when a Behrens wine glass sells at @ €4-8000 lately
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In almost 30 years of collecting, buying and selling, I have never come across Adam Jablonsky's work.
The Corning Museum of Glass has a huge collection and the fact that one of their curators may have purchased some of a given artist's work at some time or other is always nice to know, but it is not necessarily a validation of that artist's work. Many museums purchase not just for aesthetic reasons but for archival purposes..so that their collections show at a later date who was doing what. (In the British Museum's collection of 7 million artefacts, over a million are flints!)
The Corning Museum of Glass also has a fairly substantial gift shop which sells glass by artists from all over the world. Some artists and their publicists gloss over the difference between the shop and the museum itself when talking about Corning's purchases and even when they make the difference clear, once the information becomes secondhand or sub-edited it may be overlooked.
Gold medals:there isn't an international standard for these, which is probably why you don't see people like Chihuly making reference to winning them....if they mean that much you would expect him to have won a few.
I don't intend to be negative. I know some of you think the stuff is fantastic, but I'm afraid I'm with Ivo.
As for LSA - they are a very professional sales led organisation who in recent years have employed young British designers to work on their ranges. As Ivo says, they then sub-contract the production to various factories in Poland. They are only one of a number of companies dotted around Europe who work this way, but they have recognised the advantages of creating a brand..LSA..which they have marketed as a recognisable style....you'll find their adverts in Elle Deco, as well as a lot of editorial publicity. Do not be under the misapprehension that their products are rare, however, as their output is considerable, which is what one would expect from the very reasonable prices. We are talking at least hundreds and more probably thousands of units of each piece.
Speaking of thousands, the Krosno tumbler you are looking for, Peter, is probably one of tens of thousands produced in the seventies and eighties and imported into the UK. But this just shows that mass produced quantities can become rare...people bought them, broke them and suddenly there aren't any around....I haven't seen one for ages.
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As for LSA - they are a very professional sales led organisation who in recent years have employed young British designers to work on their ranges. As Ivo says, they then sub-contract the production to various factories in Poland.
What I would like to know is WHO are those young designers? And WHO are the craftspeople in Poland who bring those designs to life? :?
Do not be under the misapprehension that their products are rare, however, as their output is considerable, which is what one would expect from the very reasonable prices. We are talking at least hundreds and more probably thousands of units of each piece.
But surely a good design is still a good design, however many copies of the product are made? I would just like to be able to know WHO was the designer!
Also, IMNSHO, the fact that one person likes it and another else doesn't is not the point.
Sorry to be a bit of a 'terrier' with this one :oops: :roll:
Leni
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ASK!
http://www.lsa-international.com/