Dimensions
Height: 19 1/5 Inches; Width: 3 3/4 Inches
Description
Offering a Vintage Nonfoux B/G Art Glass Classic and Rare Red Bottle with Black Stopper.
This Master piece was made in 1995 by Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin at Nonfoux Switzerland.
I aquired this beautiful creation directly from the artists in the late 90's.
It measures 19 1/2" tall and 3 3/4" wide at the base.
Monica Guggisberg & Philp Baldwin:
We have been working together for forty years.
There’s no distinction really between an idea and its manner of expression. The two are joined at the hip. It's a marriage contract, for better or for worse. Music is made from an instrument, even as the idea flows from the human mind. The quality of the instrument counts, as Stradivarius knew. And while Mozart's notes are the same in 1775 as in 2010, the sound won’t be, and its ability to transform and move depends both on individual interpretation and virtuosity of manipulation.
Likewise, good writing is as much about craftsmanship and a sense of language as the ideas forming the words into a coherent expression. Roger Federer's forehand, the choice of a shot, the quality of its delivery: art and craft, mind and body. In our own rather quaint, no doubt very 1960's way (levitating on Robert Pirsig’s "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"), this was the whole point of this trajectory, to do something that allowed mind and body to merge in intention.
Monica Guggisberg b. 1955, Bern, Switzerland
Philip Baldwin b. 1947, New York, USA
Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin have been working as a team since 1980. For twenty years their studio was in Switzerland, and in 2001 they moved to Paris. Since 2015 they have been based in rural Wales, with a view over the hills; a third act in a long nomadic journey.
Solo Museum Exhibitions
2012 'Au delà du verre', Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (cat.)
2011 'Au delà du verre', Musée Ariana, Geneva (cat.)
2004 'Cirque de Spheres', Mudac Museum, Lausanne (cat.)
2002 'Battuto 2002', Ebeltoft Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark (cat.)
2001 Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.)
Installations
Installations in numerous public and private spaces across Europe and the USA, most recently at Canterbury Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, and St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Design Collaborations
Best & Lloyd, London, UK
Hergiswil Glas, Hergiswil, Switzerland
Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland
Nouvel Studio, Mexico City, Mexico
Rosenthal Glas & Porzellan AG, Selb, Germany
Steuben Glass, Corning/NY, USA
Venini, Venice, Italy
Public Collections
Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, München; American Craft Museum, New York; Berner Design Stiftung; Carnegie Museum of Art, PA; Chrysler Museum; Norfolk VA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning; Denver Art Museum; Die Neue Sammlung, München; Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof, Coesfeld-Lette; Fond Cantonal de Beaux Arts, Lausanne; Fond Cantonal de Décoration, Genève; Gewerbemuseum Winterthur; Glasmuseum Ebeltoft; Glasmuseum Hentrich, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; IMA, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama; Mudac, Lausanne; Musée Ariana, Genève; Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris; Musée du Verre, Sars Poteries; Museo del vetro Murano; Museum Bellerive, Zürich; Museum für Kunsthandwerk Berlin; Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Hamburg; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA; Palm Springs Art Museum; St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh; Swiss National Collection of Applied Art; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
Selected Publications
Under an Equal Sky: Baldwin & Guggisberg at Canterbury Cathedral, 2018
Au delà du Verre / Beyond Glass, 5 Continents, 2011, 192 pages
L’Arche de Verre, Ceramique et Verre, 2011, 96 pages
Circus of Spheres, Mudac, 5 Continents, 2004, 88 pages
Battuto 2002, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, 2002, 60 pages
Hot Glass Cold Glass, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, 2001, 84 pages
In Search of Clear Lines, Benteli Verlag, Bern, 1998, 178 pages
Awards
Glass in Venice Prize, 2017
Bavarian State Prize
Grand Prix des Arts Appliqués, Lausanne
Grants
Commission for Applied Art, Canton of Bern
Federal Commission for Applied Arts
Ikea Foundation
National Endowment of the Arts