Simon Pearce unveils a 21-piece collection of American Made, handblown glassware featuring an intricate internal airtwist.

For the first time in over 20 years of glass and pottery production, Simon Pearce is pleased to introduce a newly designed, complete collection. This span of products, called The Stratton Collection, offers twenty-one distinctive items for the home and tabletop.

March 17 2004--These wine glasses, martinis, pilsners, decanters, lamps, hurricanes, vases, bowls, candlesticks and cake plates feature an intricate, internal air twist. This is an old and nearly extinct technique in hand-blown glass design. Capturing such intricate air patterns within glass has largely vanished due to the skill required in its creation. Each piece in the Stratton Collection demands rare talent and precision by expert glassblowers. In fact, only a handful of Simon Pearces 70+ artisans can create the Stratton designs. The first gather of glass is carefully spun and then crimped, using special tools made in our workshop. This creates air grooves in the warm glass that are then covered with a second gather, trapping the air inside. Next, the glassblower rhythmically manipulates the formation of air and glass to produce the internal air twist. Finally, the piece is removed from the pontil iron and cooled. The result is exceptional and the effect is exquisite.

The complete collection is due to hit stores mid-March, 2004.
Simon Pearce is a designer and blower of glass who was raised in County Cork, Ireland. After working in some of Europes most renowned glass houses, he came to the United States to open a workshop in a historic mill on Vermonts Ottauquechee River in 1981. Simon Pearce now operates 12 retail stores on the East Coast including four manufacturing facilities and two prominent restaurants. Each location offers Simon Pearce original designs in glass and pottery along with fine linens, candles, woodenware and other tabletop accessories.
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