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!

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To see the whole collection of smilowglass check the smilowdesign website

   NEW for 2013:  Faux Bois in green and brown

Smilow Chairs on Display!

We have a major milestone to report. I was excited to see the very first Smilow Furniture custom order on display today.

Last year at a museum opening I had the pleasure of meeting Adam Rolston, a partner at Incorporated. It was through that meeting that he discovered that I was attempting to reestablish and reintroduce my father Mel Smilow's designs from the mid century. Adam–an architect– was an instant admirer of the designs and has since became our first customer. These newly reissued Smilow WAC 33 Arm chairs have been installed in the model apartment of a new luxury building on west 87th street condo  in Manhattan that Incorporated, designed the interiors for. Check out the pictures below.

 

 

Photographs by Maia Schoenfelder

These gorgeous chairs can be ordered in many types of wood and custom upholstery. Pictured above in american walnut, with leather cushions.
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