Process

The Creation Process

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  Step 1: The Design Process

  The design dialogue generally begins with scale drawings and ends with a full size cartoon. This image is a “mock-up”, which demonstrates the final glass selection and lead thickness.
  

  Step 1: The Design Process

  This is a detail from the completed master bathroom, Tranquility, Zephyr Cove. We also produced a reproduction of the dome over the grand staircase on the R.M.S. Titanic and the lay light from the Brooklyn Public Library.
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  Step 2: Glass Selection

  The art of stained glass involves harnessing and controlling the interaction of glass and light. We use a multitude of light tables and light easels as we select, cut, and arrange the glass pieces which will compose our window.
  

  Step 2: Glass Selection

  Here is a detail of the "Little Chef". These images were painted and fired and painted and fired again as many as nine times to achieve this depth and detail.
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  Step 3: Glass Painting

  Fine art is as much about control of the medium as it is about artistic inspiration. No matter the brilliance of one's vision, its expression is dependent upon mastery of technique to make it "fine".
  

  Step 3: Glass Painting

  This is a detail of a contemporary window produced by the Korean/French painter Rev. Pere Kim en Joong, while an artist in residence at Reflection Studios. In the tradition of all great Studios, we thrive on collaboration.
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  Step 4: Glass Layout

  Many works of glass art can be rendered through the traditional use of lead lines, the careful selection of colored glass, and skilled glass painting. However, other projects demand the attention to detail more common to the production of fine jewelry.
  

  Step 4: Glass Layout

  Our version of Jiang Tie-Feng's Emerald Lady illustrates the vibrant interplay of art and technique. On commission from Alan Fingerhut and working from a gallery poster we were able to capture the drama and vibrancy of Jiang's riveting work.
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  Step 5: Fabrication

  Since it serves as a part of the building fabric, leaded glass must not only bear its own weight, but must also serve as a weather tight barrier against resisting rain, wind, and extremes of temperature. The only way to achieve that is with superior materials and painstaking craftsmanship.
  

  Step 5: Fabrication

  When a work of art is not only beautiful but well made it may survive long enough to take its place in history. This is a reproduction of the lay light in the Brooklyn Library, commissioned for the Library at Tranquility, Zephyr cove
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  Step 6: Installation

  We design, engineer, fabricate, and install. We are licensed and insured. We do the same skilled work on the ordinary as we do on the monumental. Engineering hurdles and creative challenges are always welcome.
  

  Step 6: Installation

  We installed this steel and leaded glass ceiling for the Garden Court lay light at the Olympic Club golf course in less than 5 days.