Signed Art Glass Vase by Dominick Labino

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A hand blown glass paperweight vase signed by Dominick Labino. The piece is transparent with blue, yellow and orange inclusions extending from the bottom. The top has a small opening for one or two stems with an etched date and signature to the underside August 1982. Dominick Labino (1910–1987) was a crucial figure in the studio art glass movement. He was trained as an engineer at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. His design aesthetic as an artist was cultivated at the Toledo Museum’s Art School. In terms of his art glass, he is probably best known for cast panels of large polychrome murals made in 1969 which are owned and displayed at the Toledo Museum of Art. His contribution to the glass industry covered more than fifty years connecting science, history, art , technology and studio practices. Labino held over fifty patents for glass in America and more than twice as many throughout the world. Furthermore, in 1954 he invented a pure silica fiber used in 1980 for the protective shields on the spacecraft Columbia. In 1962 he engaged with Harvey Littleton in well-known glass blowing workshops that took place at the Toledo Museum. Labino had created a glass formula with low-melting properties, No. 475 marbles, while in charge of research and development at Johns-Manville. He supplied the workshops with these marbles which quite literally created the studio glass movement. This allowed for glass blowers to create in garages and small studios instead of having to work with large glass companies.

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17DET040-150