Steuben Glass Works | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Steuben Glass Works was founded in 1903 by Thomas G. Hawkes and Frederick Carder. Hawkes had been president of T.G. Hawkes and Company, the largest glass engraving firm in Corning, New York. He purchased the glass blanks cut and engraved by his firm from a variety of sources and eventually decided to start manufacturing them himself. He approached Carder, an English glassmaker who specialized in colorful art nouveau pieces, as a partner. Carder had worked for the English firm Stevens and Williams for a number of years and having being passed over for a promotion, he accepted Hawkes’s proposition. Steuben produced a variety of glass objects until World War I; war time restrictions prevented the firm from... more.

We have 18 objects that Steuben Glass Works has been involved with.

Pair Of Candelabra And A Single Place Setting

Clear blown lead-glass bowl with an irregular, undulating lip and organic, nature-based shape. The fluid, petal-like bowl is uneven in height, its sides gently folded and expanding from a base of soft, pinched corners. The object is set against an ombre background which gradually blends from black tones at the top to a light grey at the bottom. Shadows and highlights reflect angles which radiate from the bottom of the object.

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