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

By Louise Irvine The “Cheers” exhibition in our new Hollywood location showcases a variety of drinking vessels and accessories produced by the British pottery industry. In addition to tea drinking, which was promoted by the temperance movement as “the cup that cheers but does not inebriate”, we are exploring ceramic

By Louise Irvine In July, we start recreating our Hot Glass Gallery in the new Hollywood museum and during the planning stages we have been exploring various aspects of our Chihuly collection. Among Arthur Wiener’s first acquisitions are some Macchia forms from the Chihuly Black series which the artist launched

By Louise Irvine Congratulations to Sally Tuffin, Richard Dennis, and the team at the Dennis Chinaworks who celebrate 30 years of creativity with an open day on July 2 at their delightful pottery in Somerset, England. Sally and Richard have been long time friends and supporters of WMODA with their

By Louise Irvine A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London celebrates the “The Artistic Home” home of the late 1800s and the creativity and innovation of British art potteries. The artists, many of them young women, painted and decorated vases, chargers, and other ornamental wares by

By Louise Irvine WMODA visitors will be all fired up when we reopen the museum as we are currently curating an exhibition with our fabulous rouge flambé wares. One of the stars is Bernard Moore who began experimenting with Chinese inspired high-fired reduction glazes during the 1890s. He perfected the