Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 485/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker by : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Download or read book Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker written by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.
