Custom handmade doorknobs and cabinets are particular unique in the 21st Century. As glass blowers, Martin and Marian Megna have made their business Megna Glass a well-known fame through the Old English technique to creat archigtechual hardware, they've only seen excellence in their work and progress. Over the years, the private business has flourished as Megna Glass has been featured in House Beautiful Magazine, and Architectural Digest Magazine.
The duo moved from Long Beach, New York to furthest out east in Sag Harbor in 1999 and established Megna Glass, designing innovative new products. They specialize in cabinets, doorknobs, orinments and custom lighting. With over variety of 36 colors as an option, customers have the opportunity to create the most immaginative visions that comes to mind.
Martin Megna is an engineer, creating the custom products, as his wife, Marian, is the artist, who sketches the images that Martin excutes through glass blowing. Marian is Martin's assistant and artist. Martin has refurbished a 1960 antique glass press and insist on creating art that is economically and environmentally friendly.
" What I like most, is that glass has been around for two thousands year, that I can come in today in the 21st century and create something that has never been made," said Martin Megna.
The couple works as a team and tries to stay out of each others way. In the morning around 10:00 a.m., they light the equipment up and turn the enealer. Then they then lay the equipment out, open the furnist door, gathers the glass, using a select cheerywood block to mold the glasss and constantly reheating the glass in a glory hole, because if the glass cools they cannot shape it.
Megna Glass installed an 18 foot highs lead crystal and handmade bead curtain spanning over 100 feet across the High Stakes Gaming Area at the Mohegan Sun Casino and Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut.
"I like them because they'll be there long after were gone," said Marian Megna.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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