By Louise Irvine Chelsea Rousso’s collaborative glass project Unity in the Community · Transparency Through Glass will be unveiled at the Plunge Beach Resort on September 13. More than 100 fused glass symbols representing unity are being assembled by Chelsea into a wall of glass. The WMODA team is proud

By Louise Irvine The new Thanda sofa has just arrived in Florida and will add the finishing touches to our new Ardmore Design Shop.  We have high hopes for our home décor showroom resonating with the rhythms of Africa in the heart of Hollywood’s Design and Commerce District. Thanda means

As we continue the monumental task of rebuilding WMODA in Hollywood, we were encouraged to receive the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice award for 2023 thanks to consistently high reviews from visitors to our original museum last year. This is the 8th year in a row that WMODA has received this accolade

By Louise Irvine In the last few weeks, we have been going up the walls at WMODA! Fortunately, not in a metaphorical sense but literally as we have been hanging highlights of our 2-dimensional art collection. In the past, we did not have much wall space for paintings but we

By Louise Irvine As summer temperatures soar outside in Florida, we are keeping cool inside as we reset the WMODA galleries. We have started unpacking the Chihuly collection and we are arranging his giant Ikebana and Macchia vessels into a new garden of glass. We marvel at Chihuly’s brilliant colors

By Louise Irvine René Lalique is renowned as the Master of Art Deco glass after causing a sensation with his dazzling designs at the Paris Exhibition in 1925. As well as clear, frosted and opalescent glass, Lalique offered a vibrant range of colored glass reflecting gemstones including deep ruby-red, sapphire-blue

By Louise Irvine Fans of the WMODA Museum Shop will remember the Candle Nerds collection created by Nini and Luis Montanez. Luis is the museum’s logistic manager and for the last six months, he has been very busy with the relocation of the museum. However, in his spare time he

By Louise Irvine The WMODA community came together on July 14th to take part in Chelsea Rousso’s glass project Unity in the Community · Transparency through Glass. The participants created glass art symbolizing their vision of unity which will soon be installed as a curtain of glass. For most of

By Louise Irvine Jonathan Chiswell Jones was inspired to “chase the rainbow” when he saw a book about the work of the Victorian artist-potter, William De Morgan. Twenty-five years later, he continues to explore the “alchemy of luster” at his studio pottery in East Sussex, England. See some of Jonathan’s

By Louise Irvine Iridescent luster glazes were very popular with ceramic artists at the end of the 19th century and the Zsolnay factory in Hungary was one of the most innovative manufacturers with their Eosin glaze. The highly reflective glaze took its name from Eos, the Greek word for blush