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Smilow Design’s Dots + Dash Plate Set & Coordinating Glasses will be reintroduced at the soon to reopen Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Store

It’s Tabletop Week in New York City! What a perfect time to announce Smilow Design’s Dots + Dash Plate Set & Glasses will available again soon at the renovated & newly christened Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Shop when the museum reopens after a lengthy renovation on December 12, 2014. Just in time for the holidays!

Dots + Dashes Plate Set was first acquired by David McFadden, the museum’s curator of decorative arts, in 1987. The Sets were also featured in the exhibit and publication “Art that Works” by Lloyd Herman, then the Director of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington, DC.

The sets will be on sale in the Cooper Hewitt Museum Shop. Smilow Glass can also be found in the Collections of the Brooklyn Museum and The Yale University Art Gallery.


http://smilowdesign.com/glass_catalog03.html



A perfect Wedding Gift...Smilow Glass now available at the MAD Museum Shop





In coordination with Tabletop Week and the exhibit "Against the Grain" Wood in Contemporary Art and Design, a terrific show at the MAD Museum, in NYC. Smilow Glass "Faux Bois" Pattern in both green and brown and our "Plaid" Pattern in both gold and platinum variations are now available for purchase in the MAD (Museum of Art and Design's) gift shop at Columbus Circle.
Now that we are headed into Mothers Day and Wedding Season , consider Smilow Glass.


smilow glass...back to the beginning and new again

Back in the mid 80's, while experimenting with sandblasting on metal and glass, an idea for a tabletop line of decorated bent glass serving pieces was hatched. smilow glass started out with handmade pieces made one by one.  Soon after this I found a factory in Pennsylvania that could produce them in quantity. Bending factories were once more common in America, but by the time I found this one in Pennsylvania they were one of the last remaining factories.

   My first glass design, Dots and Dashes, 3 Piece Plate Set





   Platinum Plaid
   Fern Pattern


Over the years, my glass designs sold in many shops, a few fancy hotels (the Four Seasons is my favorite) and even found their way into some museum collections including the Cooper Hewitt National Museum for Design, Yale University Art Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum.

Except for half a dozen years at the beginning, smilow glass had been licensed to another company that marketed for me under their own name. Since last spring, I have been gearing up to reintroduce the line.

I'm excited to once again be offering my glass line under the smilow glass name.  I wanted to share that here first.

So. . . If you're reading this and are interested in purchasing the glass, Please contact me!

You can also like my page on facebook and
as soon as there are additional ways and places to find smilow glass, you'll be the first to know.

To see the whole collection of smilowglass check the smilowdesign website
   NEW for 2013:  Faux Bois in green and brown

Looking back on 2012


It's been an interesting and visually exciting year. We compiled some of the highlights below...


We finished off 2011 with a trip to Berlin-- and exciting and vibrant city. We saw some amazing street art.


I had an exciting opportunity to re-connect with the glass world through a workshop put on by the Corning Museum 'Glass Lab'. The event took place on Governor's Island in coordination with the Cooper Hewitt museum; master glass blowers partnered up with designers to create original works of art. 


In the fall of 2012 we look the designers dream trip to Helsinki Finland for Design Week-- the World Design Capital for 2012. The Design Museum is a feast for the eyes. From Marimekko and Alvar Aalto to Arabia and Kaj Franck the museum was filled with many amazing examples of design.


While strolling through a mid-city park in Helsinki we encountered a wonderful public art instillation called "Knit'N'Tag" in which trees got 'knit bombed' with gorgeous coverings. For more info on how these were made watch this video.


This past winter I had the pleasure to attend the re-opening of the Yale University Art Gallery thanks to a great expansion in their collection and space. We were pleasantly surprised to find Smilow Glass on permanent display in the Decorative Arts Since 1950 section. The entire museum is filled with incredible artwork and their collection is amazing-- a definite must see. 

Looking forward to the new year and its inevitable visual finds.. stay tuned!