Re: philosophical - glass garden
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- Subject: Re: philosophical - glass garden
- From: C*
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:03:54 -0800
on 11/2/00 3:09 PM, Diane Whitehead at voltaire@islandnet.com wrote:
>> one of my favorite new materials has been brought forward by my
>> friends Stephen Jerrom and Andy Cao, who have a "glass garden" here
>> in Los Angeles. They use tumbled recycled glass in a variety of
>> ways, including as a sort of jewel-like gravel (no sharper than
>> regular gravel). They've also made some beautiful walls with the
>> material, pressing it into stucco and concrete. These sparkle around
>> their collection of aloes and agaves.
>
> Laura,
> Your description of the glass garden reminded me of many stucco
> houses built, I think, in the 1930s that had pieces of coloured glass
> incorporated in the stucco. They always fascinated me as a child, as
> did the ocean-smoothed pieces of coloured glass along the beach. It
> sounds as though your friends made a design of the glass in their
> garden walls. Can you buy this tumbled glass or did they use a rock
> tumbler to make their own?
>
> Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
>
>
You can buy it: I'll get their website and forward it to you---I'm pretty
sure you can order it in various colors from them....
more soon,
Laura
