Murano PR

[Rich Samuel]

From the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/t...rqu4e1twswTIpA

[Shawn Everette]

"The series of vases he crafted last year for a show in New York features rounded bottoms and a cascade of deep greens and luscious pinks that conjure the island’s vibrant, whipsawed history. “Glass, by nature, has a certain mystery,” he says, “but Murano is the deepest, most soulfully mysterious of them all.”"

Holy confetti and word barf batman.

[Pete VanderLaan]

My Dad, before he died, simply said "Glass is a Chalice for Light."
I have always loved that.

[Greg Vriethoff]

I wonder if OCR has any cool frit mixes like those.

[Shawn Everette]

If that's what you're looking for you may prefer the ones from HGC.

[Marty Kremer]

That NYT piece was fluff, just marketing for the artists and nothing more, by someone who knows little about the field.

[Pete VanderLaan]

It's an equivalent of click bait. A publicist submits this sort of stuff to all sorts of publications and they file it away. Periodically, the publication will need something to fill a magazine and they drag it out, on deadline and it goes into print. The ACC used to have tons of this sort of stuff and it's what a publicist gets paid to do.

It's almost never good journalism. It's an ad.

[Shawn Everette]

That tutti frutti "Brut vessel" was too cringe, you'd hope they'd of been able to fine something nicer, especially with a $1900 price tag. It was also all about "designers" and nothing about actual makers.

[Rich Samuel]

Originally Posted by Marty Kremer

That NYT piece was fluff, just marketing for the artists and nothing more, by someone who knows little about the field.

That's why I called it PR. It sure ain't news.

[Pete VanderLaan]

Originally Posted by Shawn Everette

That tutti frutti "Brut vessel" was too cringe, you'd hope they'd of been able to fine something nicer, especially with a $1900 price tag. It was also all about "designers" and nothing about actual makers.

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Right , I always loved those photos of Tiffany in a muscle T shirt at the bench all waxed and everything.. Dale has some buff ones too. ( Actually, Dale was a good glassblower) .

Carder once observed that if a piece was moving too slowly, you had to keep pricing it up until it started to sell.

[Marty Kremer]

My first wholesale account (in NYC) subscribed to that. He'd move stuff around first and then start raising prices. It worked for him.

[Jordan Kube]

Originally Posted by Marty Kremer

That NYT piece was fluff, just marketing for the artists and nothing more, by someone who knows little about the field.

My thoughts exactly, Marty, thank you.