Blue glass circling the orb, a delicate green-leafed flower suspended inside, it seemed one of a kind. But the paperweight, instead, is a near duplicate of artwork already on display. That’s one ...

Those who remember Arthur Rubloff likely recall him as one of Chicago’s most influential developers and real estate moguls. Fewer, though, know him as the owner of one of the world’s greatest glass ...

Somewhere under the clutter of papers on my desk in the newsroom is a glass paperweight about to be laid to waste by the “Frankenstein of Cary.” “There's a night-and-day difference between ...

"Published in conjunction with the opening of Small Worlds (April 7-October 7, 2018), an exhibition presenting a survey of glass paperweights in the collection of the Flint Institute of Arts from the ...

When Keren Hoover was 15, her parents returned from a trip to Italy with three paperweights for her. The small glass orbs were millefiore-style paperweights, one of the most popular designs, holding a ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One afternoon in Paris in 1948, when Truman Capote was young, he accompanied his friend Jean Cocteau to visit ...

Glass is a dazzling, puzzling material. A glob of glass looks as light as a soap bubble, but is, of course, as heavy as lead. It's solid, but it looks like empty air. And because glass gathers and ...