Shop at the Glass Market, Revel in the Corning Exhibits
The Corning Museum of Glass not only has a marvelous exhibits like that of Richard Craig Meitner, it has a glass market online. Its glass jewelry section is not to be missed.
The gift selection includes flowers that look amazingly 'live:'Tiger lilies, irises, daffodils. Pages of glass fruits, lamps, artists and designer collections are on the site as well as glassmakng tools, ornaments, Serengetti sunglasses, Pyrex kitchenware, a Portland Vase watch and paperweights. Some of the designers are William Gudenrath, Hudson Beach, Vera Sattler, Stuart Abelman and Juliska, Daum and Iittala.
And its specials category has at the moment an igloo, raspberry and icy votives, most of them from Sweden's Orrefors.
Don't overlook the virtual books about glassmaking itself on the Glass Market site. And had you heard about the glass harmonica?
"Music from instruments made out of glass were known to exist in 14th-century China and in Europe as early as 1492. Performers throughout the 1700's produced sounds by gently rubbing the rims of finely tuned wineglasses with moistened fingertips. Wineglasses were tuned by adjusting the amount of water in their bowls."
