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Monthly Newsletter
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NANCY CALLAN Happy New Year.
The first and for me the most important, is the technique of realization of the work "Palette" that is exhibited in the And we do it starting with a visit to the artist permanent collection of glassmaker Pere Ignasi our MAVA. taking advantage of our In all the guided tours I do with groups that come trip to Palma de to our Museum there is Mallorca to celebrate always someone who the departure of the year that we left and the asks me how the metal pallet went up until the entry of the new one work cooled down if, as I that is born in our said in previous calendar. moments, all the He had always had a great interest to visit the sculptures made with the workshop of Pere Ignasi hot techniques have and enjoy the works he been to introduce in an annealing furnace to has exhibited in his avoid that tensions are particular Museum of created that can break the Mallorcan town of the work in its cooling Consell. process. All his works are made And I do not know how with the technique of blown glass in the air, a to answer them. So I will take advantage of the technique that visit so that I can clear dominates like few the doubt and inform the others in the glazier visitors knowingly of their panorama in general. interest in the method of So the time has come realization of "Paleta". to fulfill that desire and Another of my doubts clear some of the arose when reading an unknowns that have arisen in relation to his article in the Diario de Mallorca in its digital work. edition and in which he reported that, despite being a complex process, Pere Ignasi has developed a technique in which none of his pieces exceeds fifteen minutes of realization and that, otherwise, the strip and start again. It is your goal, to do it fast. We begin a new year with renewed illusions in relation to our stained glass activities.
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of the Gordiola Museum and the glass factories Menestralia and Lafiore. In 2008 we paid a visit to both the Museum and the factories and we will enjoy the live performances of these three emblematic Mallorcan glass places and the magnificent collection of historic glass of the Gordiola Museum. A place that I think is not visited enough by the large number of groups of tourists who are limited to observe and acquire some of the products that are displayed in the store located on the ground floor of the building. As for the Balearic glass story, it is believed that it was the Phoenicians who introduced the art of glassmaking on the island of Mallorca in the 2nd century BC, although the oldest oven known to date dates back to 1327. In our next Bulletin we will give information about these visits, although the images collected in them will be reproduced on our Facebook page in advance.
And without further ado, wish you, our readers, that the year that we began will be as pleasant as possible and that all Several complementary your expectations will be visits to this will be those fulfilled.
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Important issue: PREVENTION OF CONTAMINATION () MAC.
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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:
Part of the month
The Castril furnace
Glass Award
Of patrimonial interest
Activities on the MAVA
News
Our activities
Glass recycling
How does
Directive 2010/75 / EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of November 24, 2010, on industrial emissions.
CONTENT:
Piece of the month
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Established artists
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Young artists
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The Castril furnace
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Glass Award
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Of patrimonial interest
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Activities Museums
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Activities on the MAVA
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Craft workshops
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The glass blower
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The "house of polish"
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Plates with vertigo
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Roman glass in Museums
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News
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Culture 2018
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The longest bridge
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The magic of the spheres
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The glass in museums
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Recycling
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Cultural visits
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Culture 2018 program
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Verallia Awards
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Other trends
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Elenita
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Rosa María de la Terga
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NoDustPv Project
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Nanostructure for glass
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The glasses have memory
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How do
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Alejandro Herrera Guiñazu
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The apples were missing
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Indestructible glass
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From fair to fair
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Claim pieces
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Tvitec in Bolivia
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Gold Alfa Awards
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Transparency
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Led integrated in glass
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Board Of Directors
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waste incineration or a waste cofacility or a waste co incineration facility -incineration facility; that could have a 8) "general norms of material adverse impact on the people a binding nature": emission limit values or the environment;
or other conditions, Article 3 Definitions established at least at the sectoral level, 6) "environmental which are adopted quality standard" with the intention of means the set of using them directly requirements, when establishing established by permit conditions. Union legislation, that must be met at 9. "substantial a given time in a modification" means given environment a change in the or in a specific part characteristics or of it; operation, or an 7. "Permit" means a extension, of a written authorization combustion to operate all or part installation or installation, a waste of a combustion facility or facility, a incineration facility
10) "best available techniques": the most efficient and advanced phase of the development of activities and their modes of operation, demonstrating the practical ability of certain techniques to form the basis of the emission limit values and other permit conditions intended to avoid or, when this is not practicable, reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole.
URGENT NEWS Houseboat.
One of the constructions of a Dutch studio that most attract attention among its recent creations, is the so-called "Magic House", a smart home whose environments appear and disappear at the request of the user.
From the outside it looks like a completely empty box, but the "trick" is in its intelligent system: through an application on a smartphone, the house is loading its functions with the push of a button.
It sounds like a futuristic dream, The architect Koen Olthuis, but the mechanism is quite director of the study, says that it is simple, and Olthuis says that the a floating house of seventy square technology is already available. meters with glass walls.
No response from the Department of Culture.
17-01-13. Requesting inventory of the components of the permanent collection of MAVA.
11-06-13. Possibility of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.
11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Community of Madrid to install social services in the MAVA.
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Piece of the month. Harvey Littelton.
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Harvey Littleton is internationally acclaimed and recognized for his tireless work in founding and promoting the American Studio Glass movement. The movement was “born” in 1962, during two seminal glassblowing workshops at The Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio). The workshops were led by Littleton, a Cranbrook-trained ceramist and professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Dominick Labino, a glass research scientist at the Johns-Manville plant near Toledo, Ohio. The aim of the workshops was to introduce artists to the use of hot glass as a material for contemporary art. How did Littleton and Labino give artists access to glass? Although artists were already fusing glass in small studio kilns, hot glassworking techniques, such as glassblowing, moldblowing, and glass sculpting, required factory facilities.
Littleton and Labino's secret was a small furnace, which Labino helped to develop, and a low temperature meltingpoint glass, which Labino supplied.
California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in 1967.
Another student, the internationally known artist Dale Chihuly, went to study at the Rhode Island School of Littleton's impeccable Design after leaving Madison. organization and marshalling After graduating, he headed of funds, equipment, and the glass department there, artists, as well as his profound from 1969 to 1980. belief in the feasibility of studio With Littleton's active glassblowing, insured the encouragement and promotion, success of the workshops. glass programs sprang up at During the 1963 academic universities, art schools, and year, Littleton introduced the summer programs across the first university program for country during the late 1960s glass in the United States at and early 1970s. the University of Wisconsin in From the 1970s through the Madison. The interest that he 1980s, the Studio Glass and his students generated in movement became an glass was immediate, and international phenomenon. Littleton encouraged his graduating students to go out, What began nearly 50 years find academic employment, ago as a small group of artists and start more glass who shared an unusual interest programs. has grown into an international community of thousands. One of those students, studio glass pioneer Marvin Lipofsky, The image of this article are started glass programs at the three vitrographies that are University of California at preserved in the permanent Berkeley in 1964 and at the exhibition of the MAVA.
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Established artists. Nancy Callan.
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Nancy Callan was born in 1964.
Callan’s numerous awards include the Creative Glass Nancy Callan’s artistic voice Center of America Fellowship and residencies at the as a glass sculptor reflects Museum of Glass (Tacoma, her high-level training and WA), The Toledo Museum of talents. Art (Toledo, OH), and the Callan attended the Pittsburgh Glass Center Massachusetts College of Art (Pittsburgh, PA),The Chrysler (BFA 1996) and lives in Museum (Norfolk, VA). Seattle, WA where she is part She is also a key member of of the vibrant Northwest maestro Lino Tagliapietra’s glass community. glassblowing team.
Emerging artists. Claire Deleurme.
Nancy Callan’s artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, the Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, and Museum of Northwest Art, La Connor, WA, the Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China and in numerous prominent private collections.
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Through both tactile and visual experiences, she addresses universal emotions, placing emphasis on disappearance, forgetting, and the fragility of life.
Claire Deleurme is an artist and glass sculptor living and working in France. Through her work, she mixes
pâte de verre, paper and embroidery, in an attempt to question identity and memory from a sensitive and poetic viewpoint.
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Deleurme earned her National College Diploma in Visual Arts from École Supérieure des Beaux -arts de Cornouaille, France, and received her European Glass Fellows diploma with honors from Centre Européen de Recherches et Formation aux Arts Verriers, Vannes-le-Châtel, France. Most recently, she completed an internship in the glass department at Ikata, College of Crafts and Design in Ikaalinen, Finland. Her work has been exhibited in France, the Czech Republic, and in the U.S.
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The Castril kiln comes back on again.
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The glasses of Castril were fine and at the same time popular; villagers and cortijeros, and also lordly in their forms, because the Señorío was impregnated in the soul of each castrileño. That's why the 'Castriles' were the same in the cupboards of the hidden farmhouses of the sierra as in the exquisite shelves of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The same thing a utensil with which to take oil to the shepherds for some crumbs, that very rare museum piece. The ovens went out at the end of the 19th century; a few years ago José Saramago turned them on again and the artistic activity of the famous castrileño glasses was recovered;
but it almost goes off again. However, now the recovery of one of the most important artistic activities of Castril in its history, which was made possible thanks to the support of the Nobel Prize, the Junta de Andalucía and the City Council of Castril, and all of this by the hand of the artist Glassmaker Gabi Ignasi, lights again.
of seven students and two teachers, who used different ways to work with glass. The most important and for which this whole project was conceived was the blown glass technique, which is what was once used and in which César Valenzuela works.
Crafts of the Glass is the name of the workshop that the castrileño From last December 7, glassmaker has abierto of Castril will be able to see permanent form in Castril, the kiln in operation again in a premises very near and the stained glass the one that lodged the activity will be reborn furnaces of glass until the thanks to the master end of century XIX. glassmaker César In addition to its artistic Valenzuela, who learned production, the workshop the trade thanks to the will offer exhibitions of project of the Saramago blown glass, workshops, Center of Castril and the exhibitions and a shop Junta de Andalucía where you can buy the through several initiatives famous glass of Castril in to promote employment. all kinds of objects and Thus, in its beginning, the artistic pieces. workshop was made up
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Glass Award.
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The trade, innovation and image awarded in the awards of the XVIII Christmas Craft Market in Seville. The Prize for the Best Joint Work has been for the Studio Ciento2 workshop, and the Best Joint Image Award for the Product has been for the KÚU workshop. There have also been three special mentions.
Best Joint Work Award to the Estudio Ciento2 studio, by Miguel David de Diego, for "promoting the recovery of the work of glass blowing, the knowledge of this trade, the techniques used and the innovation of the products "
The Prize for the Best Joint Image of the Product has been awarded to the KÚU workshop, by Yukiko Kitahara and Guillermo Gil Álvarez, recognizing the The delegate of Economy, presentation of its articles Commerce and Institutional (packaging) and the Relations, Carmen Castreño, decoration of the exhibitor has presented the awards of that it has in that Christmas the XVIII Christmas Craft market that is located in Market, which recognize the Plaza New. work of its artisans (techniques of the trade, Finally, the jury has decided innovation, image, etc.), to grant three special while putting in value the mentions. economic and labor The first one, to the importance of the sector for workshop Reza Baharlou, of the city of Seville. the artisan Reza Baharlou, Together with Castreño, the for "the meticulousness in ceremony was chaired by the process of creation and the General Director of the mastery in the creation". Commerce of the Junta de The second, the workshop Andalucía, Raúl Perales, Papeles para sentir, by Pilar and Ángeles Terán, Rodríguez Rivas, "for its president of the Artisanal particular transformation of Federation of Seville. the raw material in order to The jury has awarded the communicate love and
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possesses". And the third special mention, to the workshop Estampa Bibliofilia, by Philippe Laffont, "for its technical and creative quality and the veteran in this Christmas market". Castreño has highlighted the importance of the Craft Christmas Market, not only as a channel for the commercialization of "unique and high-quality items" during these festivities, but also to visualize the craftsmen's own work and boost shopping tourism. The delegate, in addition, has praised the work of the Artisan Federation of Seville and the renewal of image that has prepared for the edition of the Christmas market of the year 2019, which will be called the Creative Handicraft Fair of Seville. The current show at Plaza Nueva opens every day until January 5. The hours are from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Well of patrimonial interest.
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The Community of Madrid, at the request of the City Council of Alcorcón, has initiated the procedures to declare as Heritage of Property Interest (BIP) the Castles of San José de Valderas in Alcorcón, a palatial complex built in 1917 by the Marquis José Sanchiz de Quesada.
of windows characteristic of the French Renaissance, interspersed with Gothic windows and eaves of Mudejar descent.
The general director of Heritage, Paloma Sobrini, has defended "recognizing the value of the buildings of the San José de Valderas de Alcorcón estate, as nondefensive palatial architecture, an example of the crossing of cultural influences characteristic of their style".
the Llorente Institute, next to the Pardo road , which preludes the neo-Renaissance architecture of the autarchic period.
until it reached an almost ruinous state, so in 1988, the sixth Marquis of Valderas, Hipólito Sanchiz and NúñezRobres, decided to donate them to the City Council of The main palace, of Saxon style, was inaugurated in 1917 Alcorcón, that reformed them and gave them a new public and, next to it, two smaller ones were built, one dedicated use. to a private chapel under the The project of reform was The Directorate General of name of San José and the entrusted to the architects Cultural Heritage will soon other destined to the residence Enrique Fombella and Eduardo initiate the file that should bring of the castle workers. Paniagua, in January of 1991. as a result the declaration as Its architect, Luis Sainz de los In the process of reform the BIP of this palatial ensemble of Terreros, was one of the great residence of the workers Saxon style that has figures of Madrid's eclecticism collapsed given his state of celebrated this year its first deterioration. and is the author of several centenary, as has been important buildings on the At present the big castle advanced by the regional Gran Vía and other places in houses the Museum of Art in government in a note. the city of Madrid, as well as Glass of Alcorcón and a Family Advisory Center; the second castle houses a cultural center where courses and workshops on ceramics, jewelery or photography are held, and the For the castles of San José de third one was not recovered due to deterioration. Valderas passed at the beginning of the 20th century King Alfonso XIII or the dictator Primo de Rivera, among others, until at the beginning of the Civil War a barracks was installed in the main castle.
The palatial complex, which began to be built in 1916, mixes the style of the French castles with that of the English At the end of the 60s of the country mansions, highlighting last century, the whole was the turrets and decorative abandoned and deteriorated battlements and the presence
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Although the buildings of the group are protected by the Law of Historical Heritage of the Community of Madrid, being seigniorial buildings and chapel before 1936, now the regional government will specify this protection by initiating the procedures to convert it into an asset of heritage interest.
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Activities Museums I.
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Activities Museums II.
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Activities Museums III.
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Activities on the MAVA. Exposition.
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The Museum of Art in Glass of Alcorcón (MAVA) presents for the first time in Spain the work of the visual artist, musician and architect Klaus U. Hilsbecher. The exhibition is entitled DNA Signature.
signature of any living being. Thus, Biology, Mathematics and Music are intermingled as inspiring elements for some works of glass sculpture, which constitute their work in recent years.
growth. This exhibition was inaugurated on November 28 and has been presented before in the Museo do Vidro of the Portuguese city of Marinha Grande.
The exhibition will be open to the public until In it, Hilsbecher presents Formally, Hilsbecher uses February 5. a set of pieces in which he proposes to question flat glass with industrial The images that we took hollow glass elements to the existence of a of the opening of this creative intelligence in the create sculptures built by exhibition can be seen adding elements, which sophisticated genetic through this link. engineering of molecules translate the idea of units in the process of organic and cells, in the DNA
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Craft workshops in glass.
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Some workshops on glass crafts that take place in Vélez-Málaga, a town declared an Area of Andalusian Artisan Interest, recover techniques from the Phoenician culture for the production of eye beads and amulets.
initiative, and it is intended to glass. instill in the children "the For its part, the manager of value for the craft work" . the Association for the Promotion of Tourism of the The workshops have Axarquía (APTA), Elisa demonstrations of Páez, said that the objective elaboration of jewels and of these workshops, which other products with torch take place in the morning, is techniques and oculated to inform neighbors and glass beads are made, for The workshops, taught by visitors about the culture which techniques of master craftsmen of glass, Phoenician origin are used, Phoenician through the art of are aimed at schoolchildren destined to make replicas of glass to the torch. and the general public, and amulets. The workshops for upper will take place until next The Councilor for Education level students will be taught January 6 at the El Ingenio by Dominguez, a graduate in and Culture of the City of shopping center. Plastic Arts and Design, with Vélez-Málaga, Cynthia The artisan Manel García, said that this project the specialties of Phoenician Domínguez, responsible for brings the work of artisans to glass and glass; while those the activity, explained that for schools in the municipality, directed to students of two years they have been Primary and ESO will be in and has highlighted the working in their workshop charge of the artisan cultural and artistic with the Phoenician culture, component of this workshop specialist in glass Ana and in particular, with this Torreguitart. of Phoenician accounts. in
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The glass blower (and X).
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face the production that was asked of him. Carlos II approved the conditions of the contract in May 1679, ordering the Board of Commerce the necessary procedures for compliance. The Flemish master undertook to manufacture «christal de roca and its foundry to make mirrors to assemble and of all genres; crystal glasses for cars, chairs, windows and other uses and for all kinds of pieces that are worked according to this science and art, including the colorful stones that are set ... » Justina Rodríguez García.
expectations, although his partner tried to get the Some samples have arrived business with Cuenca from the production of Cadalso, but surprisingly they glassmakers afloat, but he did do not respond to the level of not succeed, since they did not quality that they should have, if know how to obtain the quality of glass that the king had we stick to contemporary arranged in the contract with documents. the Venetian. In the reign of Felipe II there This small factory in El was an oven in El Quejigal, Escorial has a special interest where Francisco and because it is anticipated in Hernando de Espinosa worked, helped by the Catalan time, since the largest influx of foreigners in the service of the Galcerán and Diego Díaz, Crown will take place in the dedicated to manufacturing stained glass windows for the last quarter of the seventeenth century, within the framework Monastery of El Escorial, as well as hollow glass objects for of economic recovery of the the supply of said monastery, reign of Carlos II . which fell markedly after the In 1679, the year in which the death of the monarch. Royal and General Board of Commerce was created in But the most interesting phenomenon in relation to the Spain, whose primary purpose Spanish stained-glass activity was the promotion of industry, came to Madrid, from is the presence of foreign Flanders, Dieudonné masters in the area. In 1606 Lambotte, master glassmaker, the Venetian Domenico who worked in Namur in the Barovier arrived in Madrid, manufacture of mirrors and flat which has already been alluded to, coming from Palma glass. de Mallorca, where he spent With the support of the Crown, five years without getting to he settled in San Martín de work his way professionally. Valdeiglesias to start a This master managed to open sumptuary glass factory at La Façon de Venise, at the an oven in El Escorial to manufacture all the necessary service of the Royal House. windows for the royal houses The size of this factory was of and especially for the very different proportions to monastery with real support those of the small artisanal and helped by a Ragusa kilns of our glassmakers: partner who was not of the Lambotte brought with him trade. twenty-five Flemish and Venetian officers, a labor force The premature death of he considered necessary to Barovier ended with all
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In return it required a series of conditions-tax exemption, monopoly in the manufacture of these products, sale of the same free of alcabala and other fiscal charges, special legal status for him and his companions, etcThree years remained the active factory, although, apparently the quality of the products did not correspond to what the king expected, and on September 19, 1683, Lambotte agrees to transfer it, for health reasons, to the glazier Antonio de Ovando, neighbor of Scaffold. After the death of Lambotte, the factory fell, trying to raise it at all costs the most qualified official who accompanied the flamenco glassmaker, Giacomo Bertoletti, from Venice. The short life of this glass establishment at the service of the Crown is a fact common to all attempts to manufacture luxury goods in Spain with foreign labor in the last third of the seventeenth century. It will be necessary to wait for the next century for the new Bourbon dynasty, following the French example, to promote real manufactures in order to provide real houses with the necessary luxury objects. These real factories will also be in the hands of foreign operators, more experienced and prepared than the Spanish, but their economic results also failed to be satisfactory.
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The "house of polish".
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The 'house of polish, located behind the entrance bridge to La Granja from Torrecaballeros, already has the architectural documentation to be declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC).
José Mata, who, with a drone inside it (since the building can not be accessed by his state), stated that It is very damaged.
"Now we are in the second phase, which consists of three parts," explains the The building, dating from president of the the nineteenth century is in association, Ricardo very poor condition and Hernanz. The first one is almost the entire roof has about making tastings to disappeared. see where the stream passed. And the pathological study commissioned by the This is the study on the 'artistic-technological ground, that is, the association of friends of realization of tastings to glass in La Granja' has know where the cache was shown that, in two more going (the artificial river years, it will disappear and through which the water the building will foreseeably came to the building to collapse. operate the revolutionary polishing machine). The president of the association, Ricardo The second is a historical Hernanz, is confident that it study (commissioned to will not happen and, for that two doctors in history, one reason, several months of them, Paloma Pastor, ago, he began work to the president of the become a BIC and thus be National Glass Center able to protect it. Foundation). The first phase of the project, in which a survey had to be carried out, has already been completed by
The third part of this second phase is a current study, of the twentieth century, to determine the
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uses that the building has had, since it is known that at the end of the 19th century it stopped belonging to the glass factory and was , among other things, a stable. By 2018 "All this documentation is necessary so that they can grant us the BIC and thus protect it", says Hernanz, who reveals that "the Granjeño City Council has granted them a grant of 2,000 euros, but they need a lot more". The money of the Provincial Council and the Junta de Castilla y León has not been possible in 2017, but he trusts that "by providing all the documentation, they will see that it is not a pipe dream, and we will negotiate again to get their help in 2018." If all goes well, ditches Hernanz, "all documentation will be available in the first quarter of the year."
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Glass plates with vertigo.
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Surely you have seen the snapshot somewhere. In a documentary, in a book, in a compilation of captures on the Internet or in a store for sale in poster format.
Herald-Tribune on October Director for the development 2, 1932. Its location? The 30 of the Rockefeller Center in Rockefeller Center. 1932, the same year in which Many people thought that it the emblematic snapshot was Hine in the Empire State was taken.
Building because in fact it However, very few know the was around that time real story behind this documenting the photograph that defied construction of the mythical death. There was a little trick. skyscraper, as we see in the To begin with, there are image above. In addition, several misconceptions similarities can be observed about what we see. The first by the time and both of all and the most repeated: constructions. that Lewis Hine took in 1932 Then who was? It is not in the Empire State Building known with certainty, some when they were building it. think it was Charles C.
Be that as it may, the Rockefeller archives call the famous image photographer "Unknown," and whoever it was had to defy death to do it, just like the workers who were immortalized.
However, it is not correct. Indeed, it was taken in 1932, exactly on September 20, during the height of the Great Depression. Subsequently, the image was published for the first time in the New York
That meant changing them while standing a hundred meters from the ground on a ridiculous steel beam. A job not suitable for people with vertigo.
Ebbet, but the New York Times published a report a while ago and concluded that nobody knew. In any case, Ebbets was a logical choice: he was appointed Photographic
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In the photo below you can see how the photographer had to carry the glass plates for the camera in a leather case on the back.
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The Roman glass in museums in Madrid (XXXIV).
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Bueno, and M. Vigil. J. Price J. Price states that "blown places it in Syria and glass is commonly used in Palestine, and A, Escarza the middle of the first century locates it in all likelihood in BC", and M. Vigil believes Babylon. that "in the first century BC, For A. García Bellido the when glass blown is discovery of this technique invented, or at least occurs in the Hellenistic glassmakers realize of the East, specifically in Sidon importance that this and Alexandria. procedure has for The blowing can be free or production, there are two mold. Mold blowing is a main areas that produce training technique, but it can glass, the coast of Syria and also be a decorative Egypt, especially Alexandria. technique. It is believed that " "F. Sborgi thinks that it was mold blowing appears after a developed in the 1st century period of work with the BC, but he does not dare to technique of free blowing. chronicle its appearance and In essence, the so-called Mª P. Caldera de Castro "blown glass" technique locates its origin in the consists of shaping an object second half of the 1st by blowing air into a certain century BC. portion of molten glass As for the place where the mass, which is picked up invention of this technique and placed on the end of a occurs there are different tube called a "blow pipe". opinions: the most common The glass-making artisan is to place it in Syria, an idea blowing through the other shared by F. Sborgi, L. Pérez www.amigosmava.org
end of the pipe, first inflated the center of the small mass of collected glass, and was manipulating it little by little, balancing it, rolling it and smoothing it over the marble with the required tools until it got the desired shape. In any case, the blowing of the glass required several stages in turn. In the first phase the dough was inflated only a little by making a small bubble or blister in it. After turning it over and rotating it in the marble, when the mass had cooled somewhat, acquiring a uniform viscosity, it was possible, keeping it well centered, expanding the bubble inside and blowing back into it, thus forming the interior walls of the marble. container that you wanted to create.
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N E W S (I).
Polish teachers. It sells around one million decorations a year, mainly in the United States and Europe, in an incredible variety of shapes and designs.
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The managers of the company indicated that their ornaments can be found even in the White House.
The White House, the Eiffel Tower, butterflies and even wedding cakes: a Polish company is able to create any type of spheres to decorate the Christmas trees.
The display of the ornaments in the company is filled with hundreds of different Christmas decorations ranging from traditional spheres with glitter to spheres in the form of famous buildings such as the White House, or as the telephone boxes of Great Britain, classic cars, flowers and vegetables .
element within Christmas in the European country.
The manufacturer of the Silverado spheres, based in the town of Jozefow, near Warsaw, has about 50 employees The fragile Christmas decorations, called and has the help of another 150 people. in Poland bombki, are an important
"If the client wants to have a snowflake in the clothes of an angel, he must have it!" Said Magdalena Jaroszynska Slodyczka, who is the co-founder and artistic director of Silverado.
Culture 2018.
Last December we were at the Sorolla Museum to visit the exhibition "Sorolla in his paradise. Photographic album of the painter ", which was extended until the next day 21 of this month of January. The exhibition aims to photographically reconstruct the creative atmosphere of Joaquín Sorolla and his presence in Spanish cultural environments between the eve of the Revolution of 1868 and the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, historical landmarks between which the painter's life passed.
Given the importance of his figure and his status as a great artist and national glory, Sorolla was always the target of the photographers, from the masters of his time, such as Antonio Garcia, Christian Franzen, Alfonso, Campúa, Guillem Bestard, González Ragel and Venancio Gombau, who portrayed him in his studies, in the scenarios of his work, among the people of his family and affective closeness and in all relevant sets of his life. Important in the sample is the presence of some of the great American photographers of his
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time, such as W.A. Cooper, Williams M. Hollinger, Harris and Ewing, Gertrude Käsebier and Sebastian Cruset, with whom he also had a close relationship, after trips made to the United States, on the occasion of his 1909 exhibitions. The photographs of Sorolla gathered in the exhibition offer us an unpayable view of the evolution of the gallery portrait of the years of photography, from the business card to the large formats of the days that witnessed the transit between the 19th century and XX.
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The longest bridge.
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A new glass bridge, the longest in the world, was built in Hebei province in eastern China, and was opened to the public on December 24, the China Daily reported. The bridge is located in a picturesque place in the city of Shichiazhuáng, its length is 488 meters and the width is 2 meters.
It represents in itself a structure composed of 1,077 transparent glass panels 4 centimeters thick, stretched to the height of 218 meters between two abrupt rocks, the weight of the bridge is about 70 tons and the construction work took a year and a half. When the visitors approach their central part, the bridge starts to sway slightly.
The structure is capable of supporting the weight of up to 2,000 people, but will allow the stay of no more than 500 people at the same time. In China, several glass bridges were built in recent years, in particular, one was opened in September 2016 in the Zhangjiajie National Park in Hunan province.
The magic of the spheres. The first step to realize a sphere is called globeo and it consists of heating the glass rod with a torch, later, the craftsman blows the glass until reaching the desired size. The artisan Dolores Olvera explained that the globeo is passed to the metallizer to take a silver color, then goes to the painting area and then decoration. The craftsmen comment that the decoration is the most complicated step. In Chignahuapan, Puebla, spheres of different sizes, figures and colors are made depending on the customer's requirement.
The magical town of Chignahuapan, Puebla, occupies the first place nationwide in the production of blown glass sphere.
Yair Herrera, leader of artisans of spheres, said that the product is 100% Mexican; Chignahuapan remains in the production of spheres.
This work is the main source of employment for all its inhabitants who make these Christmas decorations throughout the year.
All the spheres are elaborated in an artisan way in the more than 100 home workshops that there are in the municipality.
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All the blown glass spheres are commercialized in the Mexican Republic. For this 2017 the commercialization of more than 600 thousand spheres is expected.
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The glass in Museums: Daiichi.
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It opened in May 1997. As part of the Daiichi Museum Corporate Philanthropy of Daiichishokai Co., Ltd., it went collection of many years work aims to "museum that features" (the collection).
Nouveau, including the World Exposition exhibition work, certified guru of contemporary glass art in the United States of human national treasure first issue has been, it is a powerful work of Dale Chihuly.
Also, in the hotel, the future is also the aim of a new leap forward, the announcement of the countries of state-of-theart artist, we will continue to expand the activities, such as exhibitions.
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Recycling. More in the EU.
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The European Commission itself recognizes that waste management options must follow a hierarchy based on sustainability and the least environmental impact, giving maximum priority to prevention and recycling. However, some countries like Germany boast of models and percentages when in reality they derive most of their waste to incineration.
The European Union (EU) wants to accelerate the selective collection of urban solid waste to promote its recovery, thus advancing towards a true circular economy based on a key concept: waste is not waste but resources. To this end, the European Parliament and the Council have reached a principle of agreement to assume new targets for recycling, more ambitious, more responsible and that must be approved in the first quarter of 2018. The purpose is that the recycling of urban solid waste will be 55% by 2025. From there, the proposal is to raise it to reach 60% in 2030 and reach 65% in 2035. Likewise, in this last period, the percentage of urban garbage that goes to landfills should represent only 10% of the total. For fractions, the targets set for paper and cardboard packaging and wrapping will be 75% in 2025 and 85% by 2030. In the case of bottles and glass jars we must reach 70% and go to 75% during the same periods. Regarding light packaging, the challenge of the total
We hope that when the agreement reached between the agreements reached fraction will be to recycle 65% in 2020 and up to 70% refers to "the application of new methods and stricter in 2030. rules to control the fulfillment But the agreement reached of the goals" is being referred makes a clear differentiation to not allow ruses like those depending on the materials of Germany and the rest of of the containers. countries to try to incinerate us for recycling. Thus, in the case of aluminum packaging the In any case, and although percentage of recycling to be much remains to be clarified, reached in 2030 will be 60%, it seems clear that the EU while those made with has decided to reinforce its ferrous materials must reach commitments in favor of the 80%. environment and against climate change and to Some objectives that accelerate compliance with however are ostensibly the measures of its ambitious reduced in the case of circular economy package, plastic packaging and which was presented two packaging: only 55% in years ago. 2030. Some measures that also Why this lack of ambition in included objectives to the case of plastic? It is advance in ecodesign and something that many do not the reduction of packaging. understand because if there is a part of the fraction of The achievement of all these packaging in which we must measures would help to redouble especially the close the circle of life cycles efforts of recycling is this, of the products, which would and the best way to generate great benefits both encourage such efforts is not to the environment (a reducing the effort. reduction of up to 80% of CO2 emissions associated One of the shaded areas in with waste management) as the presentation of these to local economies, also new recycling objectives is favoring an improvement in the role reserved for the the health and well-being of incineration of waste (which people and greater the community authorities employment opportunities prefer to name with the (more than 100,000 direct euphemism of "energy jobs). recovery").
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Our activities. In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2018.
Cultural visits. lifetime to glass. As a child he wanted to be a blacksmith, but he did not have the tools. Later he discovered his true vocation. "When I left school there was a glass factory in Campanet and I stayed in the window watching how they worked," he recalls.
This January we will visit the workshop that the artist Pere Ignasi has in Consell, Mallorca. Pere Ignasi (Sa Pobla, 1949) has devoted a
At 27 he left home and had been a teacher for three years. Despite his early age as an artist of glass, Ignasi has maintained his whole life a demanding perseverance to the perfection of its execution.
CULTURE 2018 program.
In this month of January we will visit the Prado Museum again to see the exhibition dedicated to Mariano Fortuny. The Museo Nacional del Prado presents the exhibition in its two most important rooms in the expansion of the Museum. It is the first time that the Prado addresses an anthological exhibition of this outstanding artist, a good part of whose
masterpieces he preserves thanks to the generous legacies of Ramón de Errazu and Mariano Fortuny and Madrazo, son of the painter, and purchases made by the Museum itself .
art he cultivated.
As in other monographic exhibitions carried out by the Prado, a review of the painter's best contribution is presented.
This was influenced by his mastery of watercolor, which consecrated him as the great promoter of this technique in his time.
Mariano Fortuny was a true renovator in all the plots of the
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In oil painting, his precise, colorful and brilliant technique allowed him a new approach to nature, especially in the capture of light.
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Verallia Awards.
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seven national editions. The project 'De Fiasco' by students Aura Ramos, Deniz Dönmez and Rohit Sahas Rabudhe (Italy), has been designated as the absolute winner by an international jury meeting in Paris and among whose members were designers, journalists, clients and representatives of Verallia.
The Verallia Group has held in Paris the first international final of its Glass Creation Contest. The winning design was the wine bottle 'De Fiasco', a project developed by Italian students Aura Ramos, Deniz Dönmez and Rohit Sahas Rabudhe. In total, almost a thousand students and recent graduates of different nationalities presented their innovative packaging projects for food and beverages according to the theme of each country. Verallia also gave them the opportunity to visit a glass factory where they can learn first hand the creative possibilities of this material, so that they could develop prototypes capable of being launched on the market. With this contest, Verallia provides an opportunity for designers and companies to involve them directly in the jury in charge of the selection of winners. Some of these projects, in fact, have been developed
'De Fiasco' is a modern reinterpretation made 100% in glass from the old Italian wine bottle shaped like an amphora and covered with straw and rope. In this version, the students have replaced the external materials with a drawing engraved on the glass. and launched to the market "With the 'Verallia Glass by the clients of the group, Design and Creation as was the case of 'Soirée à Competition' we have Rosé bottle' (designed by the strengthened the exchange winner of the first contest in of synergies between young 2010 in France) that was designers and the glass launched by the Gérard sector for food and Betrand winery, or the bottle beverages, while at the same 'Serac' (winner in 2016 in time we have been able to this same country) and offer our customers more selected by the Maison du innovative and successful sud-Jeanjean. packaging for their products, "commented Michel Both bottles have enjoyed Giannuzzi, CEO of Verallia at great success both in the the ceremony held in Paris. neighboring country and in international markets. "In addition, with this first Specifically, Serac has been international contest we want awarded two 'Oscar to thank all the participants d'L'Emballage' in the for having reflected their categories of "design and creativity at the service of graphic identity" and in the brands that are constantly "transformation of glass". looking for ideas with which to differentiate themselves in The increase of participants a highly competitive from year to year, as well as international market. the growing interest of customers to explore new They have allowed us to ideas for their packaging, make the leap to this level, has made Verallia consider since a project conceived by the need to take this contest Italian students for a to a higher level and prosecco can perfectly serve celebrate its first a French or German international final. producer of sparkling wine, "added Emmanuel Auberger, The aspirants to this CEO of Verallia France. recognition have been the respective winners of the
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Other trends. Paradigm shift.
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Salvator Mundi, a table attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, became on November 15 a historic evening at the Christie's house in New York in the most expensive painting ever sold at auction: after 20 minutes of tug-of-war, a telephone buyer paid 450 million dollars (382 million euros) for this portrait of Christ with Renaissance clothing and somewhat shabby appearance after six centuries of dubious restorations. MORE INFORMATION Then came the justifications: the eternal fascination for the painter and the scarcity of his work, the extraordinary thing that one of the 21 owners of a world leonardo decided to get rid of his, the international tour of courtship of possible buyers or the masterful move of place a painting of the XVI in the middle of the expectation of a contemporary art auction.
Münster and the Venice Biennial, and in which "enough is enough" for sexual abuse in Hollywood and in other cultural, political and business environments, led to a paradigm shift. The sale of the leonardo and the opening of the franchise indicate some economic displacement of the world art towards the Persian Gulf. After a few years in which Chinese and Russians gave work to the market exegetes, the urgency to fill without price limit fabulous cultural equipment projected by the best architects of the world (Jean Nouvel in the case of the new Louvre) seems to have altered the rules of the game.
The half-finished neighborhood of the branch in Abu Dhabi, Al Saadiyat Island (for happiness), will feature a national museum (designed by Norman Foster), a Finally, it became clear that the center for the scenic arts (Zaha mysterious buyer turned out to be a Hadid posthumous) and branches Saudi prince, who actually acted in of the Guggenheim ( Frank Gehry) the name of another Saudi prince, and the University of New York. the reformer Mohamed Bin Salmán. But it is also on the other side of Although later, confirmed by the the Gulf, the competence of the auction house itself, the truth Qatar Museums Authority, headed emerged: the painting, paid for by by the Sheikh Al-Mayassa. better the Department of Culture and known as the jequesa del arte, it Tourism of Abu Dhabi, will be part also demands global attention with of the collection of the Louvre museums (such as the one of branch in the emirate, which had Islamic art, by Ming Pei, or the opened its doors this week before national one, that last Jean Nouvel) the evening at Christie's in the and generous acquisitions: midst of unanimous international Card players, Paul Cézanne, expectation. marked in 2012 to sell for 190 million euros the highest price ever And so, by the art of the ancient recorded in a private sale. masters and the petrodollars, two of the most famous cultural news of A general view of the Louvre 2017 were joined, year in which the Museum in Abu Dhabi. GIUSEPPE exhibition stars of a controversial CACACE AFP / Getty Images Documenta de Kassel (and During the opening of the Louvre in Athens), the Skulptur Projekte de Abu Dhabi, its director, the
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Frenchman Manuel Rabaté, framed, in conversation with this newspaper, so much displacement to the East in the eternal movement of art throughout history. The frieze of the Parthenon in London, the Egyptian pieces that Napoleon took back from his campaign in the region, at the end of the 18th century, and also the masterpieces that dazzle museums such as the Prado, bought or commissioned by those in their age Golden of ancient art had the power of our sheikhs. "The mechanics of the relationship between art and power may not have changed since then," explains Manuel Borja-Villel, director of Reina Sofía, who traveled to the region for the first time this month, to give a conference in Doha. "Certain power and a certain purchasing power have gone to the Persian Gulf, yes, but the great museums and the purchases they are making show more than ever the separation of a world in which what is important is the economic value of art, which is what that in the end it interests the media, and another in which what matters is the basic creative work, the gray matter. Another thing that hides all that is the growing intolerance towards the culture in general and especially towards (not so) critical positions. See the escrache they did to [the philosopher] Judith Butler in Brazil or the absurd request that a balthus be removed from the Metropolitan of New York". The old issue of property ownership and its claim and return also resurfaced in 2017 in Spain with more nationalist than aesthetic arguments.
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Elenita.
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Who ever heard of a girl blowing glass? For the father of Elenita, a glassmaker from a small town in Mexico, this is unthinkable. But for a girl with Elena's strength and determination, nothing is impossible. With her blowing tube, the girl embarks on a trip to Monterrey, determined to learn the trade. But first, of course, Elenita must disguise herself as a man.
their dreams. The music and the memory of her family flood the lungs of Elenita who, concentrated, blows a beautiful song called "Estrellita" creating a true miracle of glass.
The amazed artisans, immediately give work to the girl in the workshop. But the dreams of the girl are other ... Then she returns to inflate the cheeks, this time with the melody of an old Elena's trip is special ... It is ballad called "The Swallow", and perhaps a journey of growth, in before her appears a huge and which the girl discovers that there beautiful bird of glass. "Play, girl, is some magic in her that will play the song that made me help her achieve what she sets born", invites her new creation, out in life. The love and passion because together they will fly that Elenita feels for the blowing back to dad's house. of glass, plus the music that it carries inside, lead her to create Back at home, Elenita disguises herself as an old glassmaker, wonderful situations, such as who insists on showing her art to curing Burrito, helping her the girl's father. This time it is a recover her energy to crystal butterfly that surprises the Roadrunner and teaching her craftsman ... "How I would like how to sing "Cielito cute "to a Elenita to see this," the father coyote in love with the moon. sighs. "You can see it!" Exclaims When the girl finally arrives in Elenita. The father then Monterrey, she arming herself recognizes the talent of his with strength and courage to face daughter and asks for the mockery of the master forgiveness for not having glassmakers and show them that believed in her. even a small child can achieve
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From that day, father and daughter share a place in the workshop, since, as the end of this story says, "any dream is possible for those who listen to themselves, overcome fear and take a path". The illustrations of Ana Juan complement the story very well, the tonalities of her brush locate the readers in the different places of the Mexican desert. And the warmth of the sun and the cold crystal of the moon bring together all the strength and passion of Elenita. Famous for her illustrations of the book Frida, Ana Juan received the National Prize for Illustration in Spain in 2010. Campbell Geeslin, journalist and author of this book, has written other children's books with Mexican themes. Much of his childhood, he lived in Texas and his memories of pleasant times on the edge of Texas and Mexico have led him to capture these experiences in his books. You can learn more about this writer in this article in English.
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Rosa María de la Terga.
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In Havana, the International Handicraft Fair, Fiart 2017, was dedicated last year to glass as an artisan manifestation.
of design, creation and restoration of stained glass and lamps in the Tiffany style, but she, like any good disciple, appropriated the technique to make it his own For this reason, the and managed to revitalize organizing committee of Fiart the national glasswork paid him a post-mortem In his creations were present tribute, at the Pabexpo the fauna and flora of his fairgrounds, to Rosa María country, fish, insects, birds, de la Terga (Havana, 1935flowers and many other 2017), an essential figure creatures that seemed to when talking about have come out of a fairy tale. contemporary Cuban glassmaking. She was not oblivious to the Patria history and she also One of the stands present at incorporated vignettes of the fair shows some of the tobacco boxes into her works of the Casa-Taller screens, which included Rosa Maria de la Terga, that images of Cuban women. school where several generations of glass Its imprint can be found in specialists were trained. the stained glass windows that it restored for hotels and It was a dream of the artist to restaurants in the Office of make a great exhibition with the Historian of the City of her works. He could not see Havana, the Museum of the his dream materialized. City or the old pharmacy of That is why the stand with its Obispo Street. screens gained greater Emblematic are the stained connotation, pieces that in glass windows he designed the hands of the artisan for the Las Ruinas came to be recognized as restaurant, the Lenin Park, true works of art and that the Palace of the Revolution, stood out for their chromatic the Havana Canal, the State range, dominated by the Council; the Cuban colors of the tropics. Association of Artisan Artists Rosa Maria had as a teacher (ACAA) and the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets (FCBC), the Italian Nino Mastellari just to mention some of their who delved into the secrets
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works. The previous thing was not an impediment so that its stained glass windows were requested in religious institutions of all the country, among them the habanera Church of San Francisco de Paula; the San Juan de Letrán Church, the Apostolic Nunciature and the San Judas Tadeo Parish, in Pinar del Río. Many were the awards and recognitions that he reaped throughout his life. In 1998 a leaded glass lamp with the title of Dragonfly was raised with the Grand Prize of the 1st. National Craft Fair. In 2005, she received the "Manos" Award, granted by the ACAA, for her valuable contribution to the development of Cuban handicrafts and, a year later, the Recognition "For the Work of a Lifetime" granted by the FCBC. During the opening day of Fiart 2017 he was given a post-mortem recognition that his son Julio César Giner received, another glass craftsman who keeps alive the tradition inherited from his best teacher.
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Project NoDustPV.
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The Institute of Photovoltaic Concentration Systems (ISFOC) of Puertollano will participate in the NoDustPV project, "Development of anti-dirt glass for applications in photovoltaic energy modules".
and reduce the maintenance and cleaning of modules.
Subsequently, small prototypes will be manufactured incorporating the glass in photovoltaic The glasses and lenses modules (crystalline silicon) will be modified with and photovoltaic modules treatment of atmospheric of concentration to later plasma and by depositions test the performance of the of hydrophobic / materials developed in the oleophobic layers. field. The project will be In addition, the project developed in close The NoDustPV project has contemplates testing collaboration by the a deadline of seven commercially available anti companies Leitat, ISFOC months, waiting to be -dirt coating systems used and Solartys, and will be completed next April. in other applications to financed by the Ministry of determine their suitability It has an execution budget Energy, Tourism and Digital in this application as well of 142,851 €, of which Agenda, through the line of as comparing them with 103,855 € are co-financed support for innovative the experimental methods by the Ministry of Energy, business groups (AEI). that will be developed Tourism and Digital The NoDustPV project within the NoDustPV Agenda, through the aims to develop glass and project. "support to Innovative surface modified lenses to Business Groups", the Firstly, glasses and lenses repel dirt in photovoltaic purpose of which is to will be developed at modules. improve the laboratory scale and their competitiveness of small Thus, it is intended to performance will be and medium enterprises. improve the performance evaluated and optimized. of photovoltaic installations
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Nanostructure for solar glass.
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Researchers from the Swanson School Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh have been working on new types of glass to improve the light capture capacity of the solar module.
commercial applications in photovoltaics and other areas, is that it can be changed from opaque to clear by simply applying water to the surface.
discussed in the current research, however, it could also be used in LEDs, as well as for "smart windows" that change from opaque to transparent.
This was a fortuitous discovery While manufacturing costs made by the team, as it They developed a have not yet been worked on nanostructures for nanostructure, which they investigated, the team expects solar glass. describe as "grass-like", which that glass will be cheaper to "I was cleaning the new" has the effect of scattering light produce than current smart nanowire "glass when I when it hits a solar cell placed window solutions, which use discovered that cleaning it with underneath and at the same voltage to go from opaque to water made the glass clear," time makes the glass appear transparent. said project director Sajad opaque. The team is now conducting Haghanifar. In an investigation published in durability tests on the glass, "Water is among the extremely the journal Optica, glass was and is also investigating its hydrophilic nanostructures, recorded with structures of possible self-cleaning which makes the" nanowire "nanoHierba" between 0.8 and properties, which indicates that "glass act as a flat substrate. 8.5 micrometers high. the application on solar panels is still the main focus. ecause water has a refractive The team discovered that a index very similar to that of height of 4.5 microns provided "Glass that can be selfglass, light passes directly the best balance of 96% cleaning is very useful," through it. When the water is transmittance and 96.2% fog, explains Haghanifar, "because removed, the light hits the according to tests performed it avoids the need to manually dispersion nanostructures, with yellow light (550 nm or automatically remove dust making the glass look hazy. " wavelength). and debris that would reduce The effects of switchable the efficiency of solar panels." Another important feature of opacity on the utility of glass in glass, which could have wide solar applications are not
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The glasses have memory.
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information in the case of optical fibers) by diffusing the light and improving the transmission Transcending limits capacity of the photonic crystal Thanks to this ability, they fibers. present surfaces 40% smoother In thermodynamics, it is said that than previously estimated, which a system is in a state of Atomic force microscope thermodynamic equilibrium, if it opens the door to the is unable to spontaneously To arrive at this result, development of new photonic experience any change of state researchers have turned to the crystal optical fibers and will or thermodynamic process when high sensitivity of the atomic improve the transmission of it is subjected to certain force microscope, which is information through capable of detecting forces of the environmental conditions. telecommunication networks. order of nanonewton, one of the For this, it must be multiples of the international Glasses are not only able to simultaneously in thermal system for the physical unit of forget, but according to new equilibrium, mechanical measurement known as Newton. research, they also remember equilibrium and chemical their behavior when they were in With this microscope, they were equilibrium. a liquid state. The results are published in the journal Physical What this research has shown is able to measure the roughness of the glass sections produced in Review Letters. that the limit established by the conditions far removed from state of thermodynamic equilibrium, both in optical In the solid state, a glass keeps equilibrium can be transcended photonic crystal fibers and in the memory of the direction in under certain conditions: glass silica glass capillaries (common which it flowed when it was in interfaces that in the liquid state glass), both obtained by liquid state subjected to high were subjected to high stretching at high temperatures. temperatures, before solidifying mechanical pressures to force by rapid cooling, explained in a their stretch, are up to 40% The glass surfaces thus obtained statement. smoother than the limit are extraordinarily smooth: their roughness is of the order of 0.15 The atomic structure of a glass is theoretically predicted. nanometers, the equivalent of a almost the same as it was when This result, besides the single interatomic distance in a it was in a liquid state. fundamental interest, finds a silicon crystal. direct application in the It is also known that the surface development of new optical And what is even more of a glass is extremely soft fibers of photonic crystal, in surprising: the fluctuations of the because there are frozen, the which the light is guided by surface of the glass thus past fluctuations of a liquid structural modifications and not stretched are specifically interface. only by refractive index attenuated in the same direction The roughness associated with of the stretch, which means that differences. these fluctuations of frozen liquid these solid glass surfaces Reducing the roughness of the is small, of a few fractions of remember the direction in which pieces of glass beyond the nanometers, and possesses a they were stretched when they minimum value that corresponds predicted limits effectively were in liquid state. reduces the losses (of Glasses remember their behavior when they were in a liquid state, a study has found.
to that established by the equilibrium thermodynamics.
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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Nancy Callan.
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Alejandro Herrera Guiñazú.
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Alejandro Herrera Guiñazú (41 years old) is a sculptor and paragliding instructor. Both passions are combined in his work, where he achieves a rare and hypnotic harmony between technique and nature.
"The rarity of my work is foundry (I use fire to melt glass) and at the same time cold work with water, which is how I treat stones. The process of carving and polishing to stick the parts is with water, "explains He learned sculpture in bronze Alejandro. with his father, Daniel Herrera, and glass, his specialty, with In the foundry he uses these Coco Russo in Mendoza colorful glasses that he brings (Argentina) and with world from the United States, the specialists Loretta Yang, Milon Bullseye Glass. Townsend, Daniel Clayman, Vladimir Klein and Jiyong Lee, Alejandro reveals that the idea of this fusion came to him all In New York. almost by accident: he wanted Sum more than 30 samples, a support for the glass that at between individual and the same time retained the collective. The last one, natural shape of the stone. "Visiones", was seen at ArteH (curated by Daniel Rueda) until Currently studying with Egar December 6th. On its website Murillo contemporary art: "The only way to be able to sustain it has updated its catalog: what I do in an artistic way, not www.ahgesculturas.com. only technical, is studying," he "My work goes back millions of says. years. Before life Before the atmosphere. When everything These pigments brought them from the Museum Services was energy, fire and movement, "he said about his Corporation, which sells the best supplies to restore works work, where geometry and of art. natural energy (especially stones) coexist. This is how one of his sculptures is almost Creating each sculpture assembled. It lets them "rest" involves previously designing several days at a suitable each of its parts: how the temperature. In this case, it stone will be divided and how took two months for that each of the glasses will be process. Then it will cut and treated inside, with what polish. The stones he works patterns and colors. with are from the Mendoza Then, the long process River, and many of his glasses involves different techniques are recycled. and actions with machines designed exclusively by him.
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When he asked his teachers if he could assemble glass and stone, they told him it was impossible. He, in a research process that took him more than ten years, created the necessary technique to do so, and thus captivate people from all over the world. Earlier this month, the delegation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) that visited ArteH praised his work, and even bought him two pieces. In his garden he has jarilla and several San Pedro cacti, also known as huachuma: a sacred plant of pre-Columbian cultures. It accompanies them with a sculpture of the god Xochipilli, who in Mexican mythology is the god of love, beauty and plants. "Through a laborious process, which highlights the complexity of the challenge, his works transmute the monochord physiognomy of common stones to inscribe in them an explosion of lines and colors, shapes and transparencies", wrote the critic Rodrigo Alonso about his work. Nature, which we thought we knew, is revealed to us again: the hand of man reinvents it.
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The apples were missing.
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First that the balls was the tree. The Romans adorned their houses with fir branches to commemorate the god Juno, which they did on the winter solstice.
Goetzenbruck, the harvest of apples was very poor and with it the Christmas trees could not see their decorated branches. Blessed bad harvest, you will see.
Already in the Christian period, the spruce branches gave rise to the whole tree, Christmas trees that remembered the trees of paradise, and that were in choirs of churches, but also in homes.
Well it happened that Goetzenbruck was the place of glassblowers. Since 1721 there was a glass factory specializing in the manufacture of glass for watches, a factory that gave rise to smaller glassware.
(technique used then, and even today in many places) and formed the first cute and germinating Christmas ball. The large glass factory found that the idea, as well as beautiful, could be commercial, and quickly began a production that reached 250,000 balls per year.
Today, despite the industrial production of Christmas balls, the factory of handmade and Trees were added original balls is still It turns out that when the elements, such as the red appreciated. apples ended, a apple that reminded the glassmaker today In that region, in apple of sin, also nonunknown wanted to Meisenthal, a furnace consecrated hosts, comfort the children with glass factory opened its candy, etc. something that was more production in 1999 for the But it happened that one beautiful than the production of Christmas day, in the winter of 1858, beautiful red fruit: the balls. in the city of the French inspired glassmaker took Lorraine of a piece of glass, blew it
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They create indestructible glass.
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Initially, experts were trying to create a new adhesive substance with a rubber-like material, polyether thiourea.
glued together and subjected to pressure.
If the pressure on the glass is applied for several hours, the However, during the substance becomes solid experiments, the and acquires its substance was subjected appearance prior to to deformation processes, breakage. after which it solidified The experts pointed out and returned to its initial that polyether thiourea form. self-regenerates easily in The researchers then its 'soft state', when converted this material subjected to high into glass and, later, they temperatures. discovered that the However, when the broken glass in two parts material was in its solid was self-regenerating in condition, scientists could 10 seconds when the only achieve the fragments were placed
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expected results on a couple of occasions. "When we got it, I could not believe it, but then I analyzed several scientific articles and repeated the experiment several times," said Yanigasawa Yu, one of the group's members. The interviewee said that he hopes that in the future the glass capable of selfregeneration -which is less harmful to the environment- will replace the one currently used and that has 'one life'.
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From fair to fair.
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From ten in the morning to ten at night, in the street, enduring the inclemency of the weather and, above all, the fluctuations between the interest and the indifference of the passers-by.
simply, a life chosen conscientiously.
«I love what I do», says smiling Joan Gómez, perfumer, from the position she shares with her partner, Griselda, at the Fira d'Artesans in Tarragona, located these This is how, on fair days, days on the Rambla the life of many craftsmen Nova. takes place in a scene He attends patient to that, in essence, is not far those who come to smell from what could have perfume samples, taken place in the Middle incenses, salts, natural Ages. creams ... at his post, But do not be fooled; l'Artesania de les what to some may seem Aromes. hardship to others is,
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Here everything is done by hand, even the bottles of perfumes to which it gives shape, right there, heating, blowing glass. What if it is hard to live from crafts? Joan acknowledges that "it's time to juggle" and that almost every weekend is at a different fair, "but it would be worse to spend the day in an office". In addition, he says, people, once they try the products and natural cosmetics, want to repeat.
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They claim archaeological pieces.
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are in Cádiz, it does highlight the presence in Madrid also of a hydria -type of container to transport water-, of glass, from the second half of the 4th century; as well as a small collection of bronze coins.
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As a curiosity you can also visit in the Spanish capital two crystal photographs with gelatine technique that come from the 1st century Baelo (d.c). However, the vast majority of the archaeological site's jewels can be found in the Cádiz Museum, which houses more than 40 pieces, which rest in its glass cases. There you can visit numerous marble sculptures, such as the statue with the head of Trajan (the one in Baelo is a replica) and the body of Claudius I; an inscribed pedestal of sculpted funerary inscription and a tombstone.
Nowadays, the theme of the pieces that must be returned to Aragon by the Museum of Lleida is topical. It is logical to claim what belongs.
sent to Cádiz or, even, much further away, such as the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, 730 kilometers from Baelo Claudia.
The first news of archaeological remains in the inlet of Bologna date from between 1700 and 1900, Baelo Claudia is already identified there.
But since December 2007 there is already a Center of Interpretation Homologated and precious in Baelo Claudia.Ten years ago and we continued the same.
The Junta de Andalucía In the National Archaeological created the archaeological site Museum in particular there are in 1990. 11 objects extracted in excavations carried out both in The fruit of these excavations Tarifa and in Bologna. has given rise, over these years, to the appearance of It emphasizes a white marble dozens of pieces of great statue of the Roman epoch archaeological value. and a sundial, also of the same material, dated this last The excuse of not having an one in century I (d.c.) approved Interpretation Center allowed these pieces to be Although the bulk of the pieces www.amigosmava.org
At the same time, there are many clay vases and glass utensils, between plates, bowls or jugs. There is also a clay amphora, a disk mirror, a bronze altar, and even bronze clamps, as well as a large list of coins. In short, dozens of small stories of Baelo, far from its starting point. It is now time for all these pieces to return to their place of origin which is none other than the Interpretation Center of Baelo Claudia. The same happens with the Phoenician bull of Carteya that is also in Cádiz. San Roque already has a magnificent Interpretation Center where it should be located.
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Tvitec in Bolivia.
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Tvitec, the main transformer of high performance architectural glass in our country and one of the most important in Europe, will develop its first project in Bolivia. Darko Zuazo: "Bolivia offers opportunities for Spain" This is the glazing of a 30story tower in the town of Santa Cruz, the financial capital of the country, promoted by the largest Bolivian private banking group, which will be used to rent offices for large multinational companies. A delegation of the Mercantile Bank of Santa Cruz, with its president at the head, Darko Zuazo Batchelder, visited last week the facilities of the Leon company to inform the Bolivian press about the details of a project that will be completed in the spring of 2019 and that aims to become one of the emblematic buildings of Bolivia. The tower, with a budget of 50 million euros, of which 20% will be dedicated to defraying the façade and glazing with highperformance glass from Tvitec, will also have a heliport - the only one on a building in the whole of Bolivia-, and will mark the new sky line of the emerging Santa Cruz. The building will be part of the modern Las Brisas shopping
to complete soundproofing, complex, which the banking according to Javier Seguín, group inaugurated in 2016 in what is the economic capital of managing partner of Inbobe. the Andean country. The visit of the business delegation also had the Since it started its activity in presence of the Ambassador of 2008, Tvitec has not stopped Spain in Bolivia, Enrique Ojeda adding its high performance Vila, who stressed that this glass to some of the most important buildings in Europe project is "a good example of the interaction of Grupo Santa and America. Cruz, one of the strongest With the help of Inbobe, an companies in Latin America, expert in façade cladding, the and a world-leading company Cubillos del Sil company like Tvitec". participates in many of the large towers and skyscrapers An ascending relationship that are being built in London Ojeda highlighted the "solid, or New York, as well as in the fluid and strong bilateral relationship" between the two most outstanding works that are carried out in Spain, such countries, which in the commercial sphere "is as the new headquarters of the Inditex group, the recently especially vital and rising" in a favorable context marked by completed central offices of Bolivia "is the country that Real Madrid or luxury residences, such as Lagasca grows the most in Latin America and Spain in the 99. Union European". "This year we are working on Alberto Sutil, partner and 50 towers, which will mean commercial director of Tvitec, producing one million square stressed that the Las Brisas meters of glass," says Javier business tower will have the Prado, founder and CEO of same quality requirements as Tvitec. the most unique buildings in For the Santa Cruz building, London, New York or Paris. the company will produce more than 5,000 pieces of high Tvitec increased its turnover by 20 percent during 2016, year in performance glass, which which it posted sales of 92 Inbobe will install with a million euros. 70 percent of its construction system that will turnover comes from allow the selective entry of international markets. light and heat to reduce maintenance costs, in addition
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Alfa Gold Awards.
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Glass, CSIC. · ANFFECC. National We must remember that in Association of Manufacturers the last edition, the winners of Chips, Enamels and were Zschimmer & Schwarz, Ceramic Colors. Bestile-Neos Additives and · ATC. Spanish Association of Color Esmalt. Ceramic Technicians. The Alfa de Oro Awards are · Ascer. Spanish Association a stimulus to the scientific, of Manufacturers of Tiles, technological and artistic Pavements and Ceramic creativity of the companies Tiles. participating in Cevisama. · ANPEC. National Association of Ceramic In the current edition of the Experts. Alfa Awards, a maximum of · Asebec. Spanish four prizes will be awarded, Association of Manufacturers as happens in the even of Machinery and Equipment The request for participation years of the fair, in which the Goods for the and the descriptive technical machinery exhibitors are Ceramic Industry. present. report of the product · SECV. Spanish Society of innovation The jury of the contest is Ceramics and Glass submitted must be sent by made up of representatives (Secretary of the Jury). email to the Secretariat of of the following organisms · The President of the jury the Spanish Society of and entities: will be the president of the Ceramics and Glass, SECV. · Jaume I University of secv@icv.csic.es, before Castellón, UJI. In the image, the January 20. · Institute of Ceramic representatives of the These awards will be Technology of Castellón, winning firms in Cevisama delivered, again, in ITC. 2017. Cevisama 2018, to be held · Institute of Ceramics and at Feria Valencia from The call for the Alfa de Oro Awards is now open, the awards granted by the Spanish Society of Ceramics and Glass (SECV) for 40 years and that distinguish those products, processes, machinery and equipment of the ceramic and glass sectors that stand out for its technological and / or artistic innovation, as well as to distinguish those criteria of functionality and utility in bathroom and kitchen equipment products.
February 5 to 9, 2018.
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Transparency truth or lie?.
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Transparency in architecture has gone from being a technical achievement to becoming a fashion that sometimes runs out and sometimes comes back.
guests in that scenario: they are permanently fogged or sprinkled with the white dust of the flours.
The oscillation of transparency reminds us of the oscillation of What began with the curtain the technological exhibition that walls and came to symbolize the we have already awakened and future -of the cities- and even that, nevertheless, had a lot to their progress, has shown its do with the ambition to see miscalculation when we have everything. witnessed the planting of curtain The construction of the Center wall-lined skyscrapers where Pompidou in Paris sparked, in they should never have been the seventies, a fashion that erected: in neighborhoods surrounded of desert or in cities marked and highlighted the in which the winter temperatures conduits of the facilities and circulation. That uncovering of would advise a more effective the interior of a building, moved isolation from the exterior. to interior design as synonymous We have witnessed how with modernity and even design transparency triumphed indoors - when many wristwatches let see it changed the rotundity of bank the mechanism below the dial. buildings to symbolize a new The problem is that once we transparency that, as we have also seen, does not really exist. know what is under the sphere, that stops fascinating us. Once We have contemplated the you know how a kitchen works, it choreographies that were starts to bother those who work developed in kitchens enclosed there to prepare the dishes. behind a glass wall when we Are we more authentic when we have dined in a restaurant with are naked or are we more creative ambition. incomplete? Do we need to We pass in front of a bakeryundress in front of the whole cafeteria that has the shop world or only when there is the completely in view. They have degree of intimacy that turns the made the trajinar of the bakers a nude into the natural state? publicity claim. Sometimes they are kneading bread, sometimes Something similar to what happens to us happens to taking loaves out of the oven, spaces. As much as Walter and the bakers - impeccably Benjamin warned about the dressed in white - work endlessly, as if they felt watched. coldness of glass (its lack of aura or its inability to covet a The glasses also look like stone creative response) and even
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though Derrida labeled it as inhuman (forgetting the human being), glass has continued to fascinate architects and contemporary engineers who have come to make it a material with structural capacity. Little could Giuseppe Terragni imagine that the columns of his Danteum would one day cease to be a dream. Even so, with all the energy, maintenance, coexistence and relationship problems with the space that transparency generates, it still continues to fascinate us. But beyond the energetic nonsense, you do not need to see everything you learn with time. It is enough to think of everything we can see and not make an effort to look. Excessive transparency turns us from subjects into objects. Transforms a window to see in a shop window to be seen. That is why transparency, like opacity, must be weighed. And we must also learn to live with technology. That things are possible does not mean that we should use them to the limit of their possibilities. Because reaching that limit can mean reaching ours as well. And we do not want to live without shadows, without privacy, without secrets, without surprises, without disorder. Transparent.
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LED integrated in glass.
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a very impressive effect by using RGB or multicolor LED technology.
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The third possibility offered by the lighting of LEDs integrated in glass, PowerContact ™, allows positioning wireless light points in shop windows and showcases. An ideal solution to illuminate the exposed product and eliminate the cables from the windows or signs, achieving the desired effect by decorators and designers. Juan Mateu founded LED Ideas®, being very clear that technological innovation in his activity would have to be constant in order to remain competitive in large projects related to engineering, architecture, urbanism, design, home automation, computer science, etc.
Innovation, supported by technological advances, is something cyclical that is repeated from time to time in all types of industries and sectors. This is the case of lighting with the arrival of LED. Since its creation back in 1962, LED has always been accompanied by multiple advances throughout its history that have revolutionized fields as diverse as bioengineering, medicine, architecture or design.
Juan Mateu, Director of LED Ideas®, the company that markets these new products in Spain, tells us how "its invisible electrical connection allows creating unique and unrepeatable spaces, opening a new world of possibilities to architects, designers, interior designers and other professionals. that work in decoration ".
With LightPoints ™ we can see the effect of light applied on Now it has happened again. The concrete points located between arrival of LED lighting integrated two transparent glasses. Visually in glass has been the last great the result is very elegant, since innovation that has allowed the points remain 'in the air' designers and architects to go a thanks to the fact that the step further in their work. electricity reaches them through an invisible conductive sheet, The first beneficiaries of its applied on the glass and arrival have been the large retail protected by a layer of polyvinyl and hotel chains of the world. We butyral. tell you 3 reasons to understand why his arrival has been the From a design point of view, the biggest advance in recent years. result is more spectacular with It opens a world of possibilities in LightGlass ™, where light is the way of thinking and spread over the entire glass. It is designing spaces and structures. used, especially for interior and Several brands are already being exterior scenographic used in major retail and hotel installations or for any chains around the world to architectural application where achieve spectacular results. light is the protagonist, achieving
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"Thanks to innovation and technological development, we have achieved that LED integrated in glass reach a useful life of 11 years, that is, 100,000 non-stop hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." To his durability, in addition, it is necessary to add the energetic saving that suppose in front of the typical light bulb of low consumption, 'between 50% and 70%', aims Mateu. Glass is a decorative material, robust, durable and, last but not least, a hygienic material. That is why it is often chosen for public places such as airports, shopping centers, cruises, hotels, restaurants, sports centers, gyms, spas, swimming pools, gardens, offices, etc. According to Mateu, "while the online store deals with the transactional part, the physical store is the one that will take care of the relational part, of the emotionality". Retailers have the opportunity to use new technologies in the physical space to cover this multisensory experience that is not satisfied in the online channel.
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Evangelina del Poyo
Presidente
Diego Martín García
Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez
Francisco Martín García
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José María Gallardo Breña
Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor
Vocales
Javier Gómez Gómez
Pablo Bravo García
Tesorera Mª Angeles Cañas Santos