Re: philosophical - glass garden

Dear Laura,
I would also like more info on how to obtain the tumbled glass. 

Thanks.




At 07:03 PM 11/02/2000 , CooperTaggart wrote:
>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
>
Melissa Rose
UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Center for Cooperatives
Agricultural Issues Center
Agricultural Personnel Management Program
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