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Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker

Quentin R. Skrabec

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McFarland and Company, Inc.
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780786463350
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Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.

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