Lavender Opal glass

Recently we put up a profile picture on facebook of Lavender Opal Glass. People ask, do you make that in other shapes and styles? Well, yes, and no. We still have the enamel colors here that it takes to produce the water colored effect. When it's requested, Nourot makes the Lavender Opal from time to time.  It also makes a nice display against all of our Red Satin and Scarlet Nova glass in our gallery.
Here are some of the pieces on display this month. August 2011 marks Nourot Studio's 37th year in Benicia and to celebrate our anniversary you can save 20% on every Nourot gallery piece!

Maybe by September we'll get around to planning a party, too. We think of the early fall as our anniversary since we began our lease on August 1, 1974 but didn't have glass until October 31, 1974. A small matter of building the furnaces, lehrs, benches, glory holes, etc. Back in the day you couldn't get them off eBay! How times have changed.

Pictured here, too are pieces by Ed Branson (purple bowl with clear foot), Kenny Peiper (tall one), and the candlesticks are by Berni Enterprises. More pictures of these on Picasa.
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Summer Breezes Art and Anniversary Sale

You're invited to visit Nourot Studio and see the art works in "Summer Breezes" by six women artists on display through September 15th.

There is also another reason to visit: Nourot Glass is celebrating 35 years in business this month. It seems like, well, another age when the studio first fired up in 1974. Then we did not know what we did not know and that probably was a good thing.

Now the studio has son Nicholas Nourot, 26, making glass along side of the "maestro". Please visit and give them your congratulations on 35 years in business. Blowing demonstration on Youtube.

Thursday August 20th from 4:30--7PM there will be a Benicia Chamber Mixer and you are invited to come celebrate and mix with the artists that are represented in the lovely "Summer Breezes" art show that is hanging now. Since June the furnaces have been off to economize (PG & E will not accept enthusiasm as payment as of yet). Now we are firing up: that means hot glass again and many new works by the famous artisans of Nourot Studio.

While you are there take a peak at the custom jobs that are in the pipeline: delicate soft yogurt cups in mint, pink and yellow for Big Spoon Frozen Yogurt Shops and also Corporate Awards for many new customers, etched with their corporate logo and personalization.

Social Group? Brownie Troup? This fall is a good time to schedule a tour of the Benician Glass studio of Nourot. See our tourist website.

Pictured above: Kay Carlson's work, left and center; Kara Young, right.