biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1863–1963)
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| biography:
| Glass-maker, born in Staffordshire, C England, UK. In 1903 he went to the USA to manage Steuben Glass Works. With training in chemistry and metallurgy, he perfected numerous glass-making techniques including enamelling, etching, intarsia, and cire perdue (‘lost wax’). Considered a founder of the modern glass movement, he created over 8000 designs, many of them in Art Nouveau style comparable in quality to the work of Tiffany. |
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