Chihuly

Dale  Chihuly

 

 

 

Dale Chihuly is the most famous glass artist in the world today, with his workshop

in Seattle, WA.  He has many assistants who work with him.  These days he usually

presents one or two shows each year in museums or botanical gardens.  His art does

not consist of single pieces, although he also makes these, but of incredible

assemblages of hundreds of pieces.  The photo above is a close-up of part of a

piece entitled "Mille Fiori," a very old name for a special kind of blown glass.

All of these pieces were individually hand-blown from molten glass gathered in a

blob/gather and then blown into and enlarged.

 

 

 

 

 The entire piece looks like this.  The pieces are placed on a base of sheets of black glass

which reflects like a mirror.  This is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.  He uses Reeds

and Herons and Floats and Cacti and Persians from other pieces.

 

 

 

 This is a small portion of "Mille Fiori."  The striated pieces are made by pulling

the molten glass through steel molds.

 

 

 

The piece is different every step you take as you walk around it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Yellow  Persians"  and  "Red  Reeds"  at one end.

 

 

 

 

 

"Mille  Fiori"  with  Herons  and  Floats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Fiori Boat" with long tendrils from fiori series.

 

 

 

 

"Fiori Boat" and "Float"

 

 

 

 

"Float Boat" based on round forms of Japanese fishing floats.

 

 

 

 

"Float Boat"

 

 

 

 

"Palazzo Ducale"   White Tower

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of  "Palazzo Ducale"  White Tower

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Chandelier

 

 

 

 

Detail  of  Blue  Chandelier

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Chandelier detail

 

 

 

 

Green  Chandelier

 

 

 

 

 

Detail  of  Green  Chandelier

 

 

 

 

 

Orange  Hornet  Chandelier

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruby  Red  Pineapple  Chandelier

 

 

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Forest

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Bowl

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Forest

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Pink 

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Yellow 

 

 

 

 

Macchia  Forest

 

 

 

"The Sun" in front of museum in Montreal. 

 

 

 

 

"The Sun"  at night.

 

 

 

 

Turquoise  Reeds 

 

 

 

 

Persian Walls  and  Turquoise  Reeds

 

 

 

 

"Lavender  Reeds,"  from  the  San  Francisco  show I saw.

 

 

 

 

Glass  Forest

If you fill glass tubes with different gases and then run an electric current

through them, you create different colors of neon light.

 

 

 

 

 

Glass  Forest  of  Neon

 

 

 

 

Persian  Ceiling - there were mats lying on the floor so you could lie down

and look up and enjoy the ceiling.

 

 

 

 

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Hydrangeas

My  Hydrangea  Garden



 

 

Southern Belle

 

If I had a garden today, I would have a large number of hydrangeas along the back

of the flower beds.  Hydrangeas grow so easily and bloom so profusely from early

spring to late fall that they are almost the perfect flowering bush.  And you can keep

them, dry all winter in bouquets in your house.  They are native to Southeast Asia

and the Americas, and today there are hundreds of varieties.  Basically, they are

either "mopheads" or "lacecaps", depending on how dense the cluster of flowers is.

Here are some varieties I would choose.  Many of the photos I took at the

Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago which specializes in hydangeas; some of

the others are taken from the web.

 

 

 

Blue bushes by the front door.

 

 

 

 

Lacecap Hydrangeas

 

 

 

 

Annabelle Lee

 

 

 

 

Paniculata Variety - "Vanilla and Strawberry"

Lucy  Lavender

Ice Blue Bells

 

Arctic Delight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Molly  Magenta

 

 

 

Crown  Imperial

Hedge of Delft Blue

Miss America

Soft  Wonder

 

 St. Lucy Lacecap

 

 

 

 

 

 Betsy Blue Bonnet

 

 

 

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Icy Wonder

Rose Delight

Crown Imperial

Everlasting   Amethyst

Pinky Winky  Paniculata

Crown Princess Matilda

My Blue Heaven   closeup

Angelica

Miss Myrtle

Raspberries and Cream

Grandma's  Passion

Petula

Cordelia

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Mistress  Melinda

Blue Curlilocks

Red Curlilocks

Angels' Parasol Pink


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I hope you have enjoyed this walk through the virtual hydrangea garden.

John B




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