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“Glass is the floating, the slender, the angular, the sparkling, the light.”
Bruno Taut

Last month, just as we were re-opening, we received a small collection of new cast glass pieces by Danish artist Stine Bidstrup. They are an evolving body of work from a series she calls Imaginary Crystallisations and grew out of her Architectural Glass Fantasies series.

Both series are rooted in Bidstrup’s study of writings by early 20th century utopian expressionist architect Bruno Taut and his circle of colleagues, who comprised The Crystal Chain. After experiencing the trauma of World War I and in …