Glassworks - The Art of Frederick Birkhill
Experience the intimate world and dazzling beauty of the glass craft through masterful artist, Frederick Birkhill.
A comprehensive portfolio of beautiful images tells the story of Fredrick Birkhill’s glass working career spanning 40 years.
Through new photography by Henry Leutwyler you’ll experience the breadth of the artist’s life work alongside of artfully composed photos of his tools, some of which are well known to glassworkers, while others feature Birkhill’s own inventions. He is closely associated with the highly successful efforts to bring flameworking, along with casting, kiln working, and furnace-working, onto the worldwide center stage of glass art.
LIMITED EDITION
The limited edition comes encased in a custom linen clamshell box housing the book, a unique glasswork from the artist and a letterpress bookplate hand numbered and signed by both glass master Frederick Birkhill and the book's world renown photographer Henry Leutwyler.
Published by The Artist Book Foundation Printed in Verona, Italy
Strictly reserved to an Edition of 50
$975.00 (includes tax + FedEx ground shipping to the continental US)
HARDCOVER
11½ x 12 inches, 280 pages
192 color plates
ISBN: 978-1-7329864-0-4
$75