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Leaded Glass Artist
Leaded Glass Artist, Sue Firpo, a designer and carpenter by trade, received a degree in Architecture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She has also studied in Copenhagen. Before moving to Portland, Oregon, to learn carpentry, she worked as an architect. Embracing the fine tradition of stained glass, Firpo creates leaded glass windows and cabinets and small furniture and specializes in residential and small commercial projects. Read Sue Firpo's article in American Bungalow Magazine, Spring 2005.
Some American glass techniques include scherenschnitte, plating and mercury mosaic. American painter, Frederic Edwin Church, built a Moorish-inspired estate named Olana in Hudson, New York in the late 1870's. Delicately cut paper placed between two panes of glass, scherenschnitte, decorated the windows. Others used thin sheets of brass instead of paper and the decorative window style, scherenschnitte, became known in American silhouette windows.
Plating, the leading of several layers of glass onto one window, has been used in major opalescent commissions as well as smaller, residential windows. Mercury mosaic windows are composed of hundreds of tiny, tesserae, in solid metal with no additional support. A simple and labor saving process, these windows are frequently embedded with jewels.
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