A tradition ends-Steuban Glass to cease operations

[Blue Ox]

http://www.the-leader.com/news/x219192610/A-tradition-ends-Steuben-Glass-to-close

I live sorta close to CMOG and have visited many times. Steuban was/is located in the CMOG facility and will close in November after many years. Though I never got into buying Steuban Glass art I always loved looking at them, especially the animals and fish sculptures.

[brettodie]

and yet another bites the dust........ sad.

[vetropod]

I thought it was already closed.

Most of the stuff in CMoG's gift store comes from China now, anyways.

[derekg0]

ya, when i went out to CMOG for glassfest last year i got all excited about some of the glass, only to find it was put together in a sweat shop, and the price reflected that... 2 foot long glass flowers for like 8 bucks... who would've though CMOG would be importing their glass they sell... guess it really is just all about the money!

I did see the steuben section and it was quite impressive, but very pricey, as i'd expect for that quality of glass... almost no one in there looking, while the rest of the store was packed! it is a shame... :-(

[glassdocnc]

Sad.

[Jeffs Pieces]

Sad yes. but Grandpa told me "Out with the old, in with the new." Its Our turn.

[Slow]

Well, shit. Now I really wish I had taken a tour when I had the chance. But it was at like 8 in the morning, come on...

[J Howard]

i did the tour... it was really cool: continuous feed furnace stirred by a million dollar platinum rod (leaves no impurities!)

the weird part was watching the gaffers pick up a gather. there's no tank to dip into, but rather a plug of glass would shoot up a tube to the waiting pipe, in the exact amount needed for the job.

sad to see this factory close. i can't say i'm surprised, they lost their following, and the glass was just too expensive for ordinary people (or the middle class has all but disappeared)

[Julian]

The way they made those plugs was my favorite part of the tour! There was a steady drip of glass coming down into a station in the basement, where someone sat filling up cups. They'd measure a certain amount of glass by filling the cup for a different number of seconds for each type of piece.

[cunnilinglass]

Wow. I was in their gallery almost 25 years ago. I think it was on 5 th ave. Anyway, while I was browsing, this guy comes in and buys 2 pieces that totaled 125,000$. Then he puts it on his Amex and has it boxed up and shipped to his house. Damn.