The Books

“Chalet Crystal Clear Continued” is now available! This just released book is HUGE and gorgeous! It is my 7th book and I expect it will be the last so it was truly a labor of love and ongoing appreciation to all the glasshouse artists that have helped me and our collecting community over the years through their generosity in sharing their memories and resources. Moreover, I was able to interview 6 artists and/or family members that I had not spoken to previously and their memories and photographs added immeasurably to the book’s narrative. If that wasn’t exciting enough, over 200 collectors contributed photographs of pieces from their private collections.

What can you expect of “CCCC?.” Well, to start - it’s 534 pages and contains over 2,470 images, including newspaper articles, historical and reference photographs, catalogue pages and original advertising. Each page is unique from the one that came before as it was professionally designed and laid out. ”CCCC” was also professionally printed and bound. It would take pages to describe the extensive content covered but there are two chapters that bear special mention - the chapter “Contemporary Glasshouses of the Chalet Era” has grown from the 31 pages featured in “Chalet Crystal Clear” to 182 pages in this book - a book in itself! It contains tremendous new information about Lorraine Glass Industries, EDAG, Mosaic Artistic Glass, Gala Glass and much more as 11 glasshouses are now featured. And, “The Glasshouse Artists” section contains details of of 70 artists that blew glass during this period. However, I think pictures will show you better than I could explain and in many fewer words, so, here is the book cover and Table of Contents. There is also a video including a random selection of a few pages from the book.

Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of Chalet Crystal Clear Continued:

$165.00 CDN (plus flat rate courier shipping of $40.00 (expedited, tracked and insured) in Canada. If you are interested in purchasing with the “Chalet Artistic Glass Collectors’ Guide and Catalogue”, see below.

The “Chalet Artistic Glass Collectors’ Guide and Catalogue”

My 6th book, Chalet Artistic Glass Collectors’ Guide and Catalogue is an interactive download on a flash drive. Nicknamed “the Colossus” as it is 248 pages with over 1,080 photos and 25 catalog pages. It presents over 1,550 verified individual pieces of Chalet art glass. It is dedicated to the Chalet artists. I have been so fortunate to have established and maintained a relationship with several of the Chalet artists and their family members since mounting the 2010 Chalet retrospective “The Art and Artisans of Chalet Glass” in Cornwall. Indeed – it was doing so that encouraged me to write about and research Chalet. Like the ones that came before, “Chalet Artistic Glass Collectors’ Guide and Catalogue” would also not have been possible without the Chalet collecting community having come together.

The video here gives the best way of giving a sense of what the book is like. Included is the book’s “Table of Contents” and a random selection of pages. You will see that the overwhelming focus is upon the “shapes and colours” of Chalet glass.” Therefore, the ‘Chalet Artistic Glass Collectors’ Guide and Catalogue’ does not detail Chalet’s history, the artists who worked there or how the art they produced was made. Nor does it pinpoint Chalet branding, marketing and distribution or the “Similar yet Different” Canadian glass houses of the Chalet era. Those topics (and more) are extensively covered in “Chalet Crystal Clear Continued.” “CCCC” (see above) is my newest effort and is just now released. These two books work as both stand-alone resources as well as a companion pieces to compliment and complete each other. Please refer to the “Table of Contents” from “Chalet Crystal Clear Continued” (above) as illustration for how the two are designed to work together as well as their respective stand-alone merits.

As mentioned above, the format of this book is different from my earlier books – it is not printed but is a download from a USB flash drive. The flash drive has been loaded with two versions of the guide. Both have identical content but each has just a slightly different level of interactivity from the other. One is a simple, non-interactive PDF - this can be opened on any device with a program that can read PDFs, such as Adobe Acrobat or any default reader (most computers or devices these days ship with a PDF reading program). The other, with the extension '.epub', is an interactive e-publication. This version has 'active, clickable buttons' to help you navigate - the table of contents, side tabs, as well as a 'return to contents' button are all clickable and will take you to that specific page. Most computers also come with a standard program to open e-publications. In the rare instance you have trouble opening either file, it may be because you don't have a program that can read them. Free versions of software to access them can easily be found online and a note re same will be included with the flash drive.