Holiday Sale Days 2011

Today, Thursday December 1st we open for our Holiday Sale. We'll be celebrating 37 years in business through Sunday December 4th with demonstrations of glass making and refreshments in the gallery. A large selection of ornaments and smaller things this year awaits your shopping list. We'll be offering 20% off all in studio made pieces.

Benicia artisans don't do a Holiday Open House; so it's rare to have Open Studios in December. Bring your out of town friends to see the glass blowers show how it's made here along the historic waterfront in Benicia, California. The Bay Area's glass makers to the Pope and US Presidents will also be giving glass blowing classes. You can register for a one day workshop December 17th on the Walnut Creek Civic Arts website: www.arts-ed.org.

Hand blown tree ornaments like these will be displayed along with unique works by Micheal Nourot and Nick Nourot. Don't miss this opportunity to get up close to the 2,000 degree molten glass in the glass shop and see the guys turn hot glass into objects of beauty right before your eyes.


Benicia has many Holiday events like the Friday December 2nd evening walk on First Street. There will be singers and wine, food and Victorian costumed revelers. The City of Benicia has a Christmas parade on Saturday morning.

Dangers of Email Marketing

You hear so much about ID theft these days. Today we've discovered another kind of ID issue: split email personality.

The original web email our business had was through the server that held our company site. For the last three years we have been using the gmail "system", "cloud" or whatever it is.

It seems that the old email address is coming back to haunt us. Mail to this old address was not forwarded; important mail. The settings were wrong! Sounds dire. So a little hunting was necessary to find the important mail.

In this new economy it's not unusual all of a sudden to have someone you thought you knew how to contact fall off your radar. Businesses fail, people move on, retire and what have you. Maybe we have been lax in reading our discarded email addresses, but today while looking through the settings we had for an old business email I have found a few important people whose emails have definitely fallen through the cracks.

Anyway, If you need to find us you may just use the email on our site: nourot.com or the tourist site: benicianglass.com Easier still, write us in the comments section below and it'll come to our box we are reading, I swear it. And we'll get in touch immediately. How's that for customer service 3.0? We'll be happy to hear from you in either case.

Open Studios Weekend Starts

Arts Benicia, the local arts advocacy group and gallery at 917 Tyler Street in Benicia, is hosting a 70 artist Open Studios this weekend.
You can stop by the Nourot Gallery to get a map to all the artist's locations.
At Nourot Gallery You save 30% off all Nourot made pieces. There is a wealth of new jewelry in glass beads and in pearls and semi precious stone, too. Apprentice works are offered at greatly reduced prices.
Zweifel glass from Oregon is on special sale at 20% off their regular prices. Ornaments, footed vases, and other art glass by Zweifel is on the blog here so take a look. They will only be here through Sunday so stop by.
Go to YELP.com and enter "Nourot Glass Studio Benicia" to easily get a map on your phone or see www.benicianglass.com for information.
Glass making is continuous in the blow shop so you can see up close the 2,000 degree molten glass being formed into objects of beauty. Bring the family for a fun day along the waterfront in old Benicia. There are many waterfront parks and access trails for hanging by the bay. Ask us when you come.
See you at the Open Studios.

Unique Series of Fifty Weights Delivered

Orange and Black with accents of real gold and blue enamels was the instruction for the corporate job completed by Nourot Studio today.

This job just delivered to Insound Medical of Newark, California. This company specializes in tiny state of the art heard devices:" Lyric® Hearing is the breakthrough in hearing aid technology you’ve been waiting for: the first 100% invisible extended wear hearing solution designed specifically to meet your patients’ needs."

Gifts like these for Holiday Corporate events are a specialty this year. Individually signed,gift boxed and shipped to your clients. Or in this case delivered by Mom's Dodge Caravan.

Thursday Reception Planned

It's only a few days until we set up for our next party.

You deserve to be treated to some fun, so come by on this Thursday April 30th 4PM--6PM for our kick off party to the 2009 Arts Benicia Open Studios.

We are "Glassblowers on the Waterfront", still thrilled to be making hot glass in Benicia. Come see Nourot's latest works in blown glass and taste some wonderful tasty appetizers by Caliente Sisters Catering. Allie Brooks promises to surprise us with some great food. Beverages will be served.

Nourot Glass Studio has been having Spring Open Houses for many years. 2009 marks our 22nd year at 675 East H Street, along the historic waterfront.

Glass mosaic mirrors by Thomas Meyer, jewelry by Jill Bugni and Marco Polo and blown glass by Ed Branson, Lionel Chapital, Rick Satava and Kenny Peiper are just some of the great artist's whose works can be seen on display. Special prices will be offered on many works for Mother's Day giving.

Nourot Glass Studio makes all kinds of functional glass all made by hand in the Italian tradition. Micheal Nourot and son Nicholas will be on hand to meet you and help you pick a piece to add to your contemporary glass collection or to start a collection.

The Nourot Studio also invites commissions for architectural projects and commercial lighting as well as premium and incentive awards. The vault at Nourot Studio is full of important pieces from Years past and the best examples of important commissions like the 1987 commission for Pope John Paul II and the USAF Solano Trophy.