Chihuly Studio Editions

Dale Chihuly first established his unique approach to glassblowing while working on one of his earliest series: Baskets. This technique set the tone for the now-familiar asymmetrical Baskets, which are characterized by their delicate, organic shapes and long, trailing wraps. Art historian Linda Norden writes tha...

“The name Persians evokes the exoticism of the Middle East with its seas of sand, the basic material of glass. The Persians emerge as mysterious, ancient and marvelous,” notes art historian Henry Adams. The exoticism in the Persian series comes partly from Dale Chihuly’s work at the Venini glass workshop outside Venice. It was there that he became inspired by the city...

It was the spirit of experimentation that led Dale Chihuly to work with all 300 colors available in his hotshop to create the Macchia series. For this series, he created a unique process that allowed him to contrast the interior and exterior colors without blending them together—a predominant characteristic of this vibrant series. Commenting on the development of this series, Chi...

“The Seaforms call forth associations with water, marine life and movement without depicting them, and that’s why they so persuasively affect us as art,” writes art critic Joan Seeman Robinson. Dale Chihuly grew up surrounded by the waters of Puget Sound, so it is not surprising that his work has been influenced by the sea. The artist himself has noted that “as ...