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Volume II — Number 70

October 2014

Monthly Newsletter

Jörg Zimermann  Training.

Newsletters

M. A. Carretero.

About to see the light this Bulletin and in our desire to get increased training for better management of our Association attended our Secretary, Rosa Garcia Montemayor, and Mission Workshop + Focus + Results organized by the Spanish Federation of friends of Museums (FEAM) in the headquarters of the Museo de America in Madrid.

to the difficulties in measuring the results of the management of these entities.

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As their income sources stressed grants, donations, ticket sales for events organized by NPOs and merchandising.

And make continuous improvements in their management.

The purpose of the NPOs is the transformation of the mission are scheduled in results.

Teamwork.

Having different teams to handle the various tasks.

It is very important to her, define objectives that can be measured and, above all, achievable and affordable.

It is also important to have an observatory press, through surveys or similar For Javier Martín Thanks to scholarships components of a mission are techniques, the opinion of granted us EGF did not the members of the have to make any payment "LIGHT" and "HEAT". The organization in terms of its for attendance at this event. first are the objectives of the development. mission and the second The workshop was taught resource to be obtained in Communication to members

by Javier Martin Cavanna, order to carry them out. and their participation in the director of Transparency activity of the entity are Three questions to ask the and Commitment necessary elements for directors of NPOs are: Foundation and Teresa sound management of Rodriguez Hervas, director  Why we exist.

NPOs. of the Balia Foundation for It should be stressed, if Children.  What we do. necessary, the Javier Martin lectured us on environmental impact can be  Public to attend.

Nuestra sede: how to transform the obtained with the Castillo Grande de To be effective, an NPOs mission of nonprofit embodiment of the S.J. de Valderas must perform a selection of organizations (NPOs) in established mission.

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n profit, exposing the nature their targets and people 28925 ALCORCÓN. should form their governing The enjoyment of a good of these organizations, corporate image is (MADRID) bodies, to assess its government, the paramount to the successful info@amigosmava.org importance of the mission members and conduct completion of the mission or and its formulation, review survey of his work as head objectives that NPOs are of the organization. and update and how to proposing to do. make it operational.

Meanwhile, Teresa Rodriguez made us a detail To achieve the objectives Highlighted the nonprofit organizations aim of the operation of the distinguishing features to achieve is important to between NPOs and pointed Foundation directed and achieve a continuous showed us the guidelines increase in the number of its that, in his opinion, should partners. underpin the actions of similar entities to which it The development of these belongs, and that two papers we found very summarizes: interesting and has given us

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Having a committed leaders.

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Conduct a shared leadership.

an extension on the perspectives from which to try to improve the management of our Association of Friends.

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S PE C I A L I NT E R E S T:

Important issue: the Intellectual Property Law (XL) M.A.C.

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Part of the month

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The glass

Intellectual Property Law

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Hall Berazategui Glass is not crystal

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Activities on the MAVA

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News

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Our activities

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Glass recycling

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How does

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of economic and and other rules are financial management applicable. of the entity.

BOOK III Article 153 Contract 12. The fate of the Management Protection of the resulting net assets or rights recognized equity in the event of 1. rights management by this Law will be commissioned liquidation of the TITLE IV entity, in any case, will by the owners to the entity under contract Management bodies be shared out of the rights between the partners. with a duration of not more than five years, recognized in the Article 152 renewable indefinitely, Law Obligations of and may impose the Article 151 Statutes managing intellectual compulsory property rights management of all ../ .. conferred forms of exploitation or 8. The procedure of of the entire work or choice for managing Collecting societies future production. are obliged to accept partners. the administration of 2. Institutions shall 9. The initial capital copyright and other establish in its bylaws and planned intellectual property provisions to ensure economic resources. rights that are appropriate entrusted to them in management 10. The rules they accordance with its influences free users of have to undergo purpose or purposes. its repertoire and to delivery systems This task shall serve avoid unfair preferential revenues. subject to statutes use of their works.

11. The control status

Part of the month

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Established artists

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Young artists

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The glass

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Hall Berazategui

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Baccarat

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Activities in Museums

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Activities in the MAVA

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Fair glass in Asturias

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Glass is not crystal

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The Roman glass

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"The craft of glass"

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Perfumes and sculptures

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URGENT NEWS

Glass art and jewelery

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News

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 The glass in the Vatican.

Culture 2014

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Concert at the MAVA

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Guitar cycle

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The glass museum

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Vatican Museums.

This collection complements a series of pieces made of rock crystal set out below the glass, as if to grasp the idea that these are two similar items, when all they have in common is their appearance, in the case that the glass is clear and colorless.

Piece of the month in Segovia 21

Interview

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The glass of Chris Wood

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Glass recicled

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Dream Garden

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Cultural tours

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Culture 2014 Programme

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Glass Museum Málaga

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Other trends

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In the pressure filters

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Sergio Galan Artwork

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Glass Drops in Tokyo

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Crafts Awards

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Collective glassmakers

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How does

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Cristal Pontevedresa

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Crafts in Puerto Rico

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Low-e glass

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Organic window

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The Argonaut and the jellyfish

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Glass in London

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Ripolles on luxury yacht

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Directorate

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On our recent visit to Rome we have been enjoying the sight of the assorted collection of ancient glass pieces that house the

They also have a beautiful stained glass window in one of the rooms of contemporary art.

Of all these collections we have done extensive graphic work that can be enjoyed through the link below.

Writings unanswered by the Department. 

17-01-13. Requesting inventory of parts that make up the permanent collection of MAVA.

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11-06-13. Chance of receipt by the MAVA documentation on glass offered by the President of the Spanish Association of Science.

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11-11-13. Requesting information on the agreement with the Madrid social services to install the MAVA.

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Part of de month. Mihály Melcher.

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His works make blocks of ice masses aspect of abstract shapes, sometimes it is the geometry which dominates the work with reference to architectural constructions.

As plastic let resource causing random cracking the glass firing process are evident.

Something similar, relatively speaking, to the surfaces of the works of compatriot Mari Meszaros.

Mihály Melcher studied at the National Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest (1986).

Two years later, he traveled to Germany for the first time to exhibit in Munich.

editions of Glass Now, traveling exhibition curated by seven Japanese cities Takako Sano.

Mihály Melcher's work is also frequent in the exhibitions organized by the Museum of Art That same year, 1988, Hokkaido in the participated in the Japanese city of International Exhibition of Sapporo.

Glass Kanazawa, Japan, as well as in subsequent Unlike most of the editions of this same Hungarian artists of their sample. generation, Melcher Mihály no glass sheet but From 1989 and until they working in mold casting, stop celebrating in 1995 that is, hot techniques. he was summoned in all

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Mihály Melcher is a respected artist among the representatives of New Glass, so that authors like Stephen Dee Edwards, Josh Simpson and Isabel De Obadía have worked with him.

Through innovation and vision, Melcher "Upset" art glass, decided to work with geometric and organic shapes that symbolize unity.

Fundamental contradiction of Melcher was to create a body of work that allows the human spirit to rise above the senses and transcend the material world to the invisible imagination.

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Established artists. Jörg Zimermann.

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He was born in the year 1940 in Uhingen, Germany.

It is a German glass artist.

Zimmermann was studying glass design at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Zimmermann has worked since 1968 as a freelance Industrial Designer. 

Taught from 1976 at the Akademie der Künste Staatlichen Bildenden Stuttgart glass arts.

Development Zimmermann are objects of art glass, having the structures of nature as a paradigm.

These natural structures are the basic idea in Zimmermann's work.

Their structures could be found in corals, fruits, leaves and ice.

Zimmermann allows glass culture.

He has developed his socalled "Honeycombobjects".

Zimmermann has received numerous awards and his work is displayed in many museums worldwide glass.

Young artists. Ivana Sránková.

Šrámková of archetypal enough to make them identifiable, sufficient gesture to provide them with wit, and enough to make universal reference. As such stand comfortably in the timeless continuum of art and craft. Šrámková's work includes large pieces and small pieces of molten glass in the series of animals and figures. Made in parts, the sculptures are held together through a careful calibration and assembling puzzle type.

The artist makes several castings of every shape.

Sometimes it is to experiment with color, other Ivana Šrámková sculptures are threedimensional distillations of basic figurative times it's just a small gesture to perfect or a minor detail. forms, both animal and human, with a healthy dose of character. Reduced to its Ivana Šrámková, winner of essence each is described in a language 1991 Emerging Artist Award of simple geometric symbols. What makes Glass Prague, was a prominent member of the them special is the ability to give www.amigosmava.org

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last class of Professor Stanislav Libensky, from which some of the leading figures of the "new generation" of Czech artists have emerged. Šrámková catalog Animals and RoboRevolution, accompanying his eponymous 2002 Heller Gallery exhibition, and published by the gallery, won the top graphic design award 2003 of the Union of Czech Graphic Artists. Šrámková work has been exhibited in Europe, USA and Japan. His sculptures are represented in museum collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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The glass (I).

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Glass is a material mainly composed of silicon and oxygen.

It is solid, amorphous (noncrystalline), physically hard, hard, brittle resistance to electricity and heat transfer as ceramic, but usually transparent.

Most modern glasses are made in 60% to 72% of silica sand with large amounts of quartz from rivers and beaches with content and silicon oxide (SiO2).

About 28% of the Earth's lithosphere silicon, 25% silicon oxide compounds.

It has a smooth, non-porous and resistant to chemical attack surface.

Silica sand is combined with sodium carbonate (Na 2 O) at 13% to 15% which is an oxide which reduces the When a solid substance is required temperature and melted by high the viscosity of the silica, temperatures, and suddenly calcium carbonate or lime cooled by a process called (CaO) between 9% and 12% "tempering" amorphous for make the glass insoluble solids such as glass are in water and other formed in that the cooling compounds such as oxides does not allow the molecules of arsenic, antimony oxides and atoms are organized as and other agents that crystals but retain strong and prevent the glass molecules weak bonds (as solids) but are organized, they will with a disordered and nonodorless and transparent or alignment under a pattern colored. (such as liquids).

Color in glass may be The glass emerges from the obtained by adding small oxide mixture from nature amounts of oxides such as which are heated and cooled chromium (green), cobalt in a controlled manner. (blue), nickel (purple or brown) and selenium (red).

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The amber color is obtained with iron, sulfides and carbon.

Absorbs almost all radiation of electromagnetic waves under 450 nm, providing excellent protection against ultraviolet radiation.

The glasses may also be composed of metal alloys, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids and polymers.

The proportion of raw materials is based on availability, chemical and physical consistency, size, purity and cost, but mainly on the characteristics of silica sand, its main raw material.

According to its composition, some glass will melt at temperatures of 500 ° C while others will require 1650 ° C. Its relative density can range from 2 (lighter than aluminum) to 8 (heavier than steel), also the insulation capacity and transparency vary.

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Glass Hall Berazategui.

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On 6 September at 20 h. was opened in San Francisco's Cultural, the "XVIII National Hall, First International Glass in Art", organized by the Municipal School of Glass dependent of the Ministry of Culture and Education of Argentina Municipality of Berazategui complex.

two sponsored by the Municipality and the third sponsored by the San Carlos Glassware, ceded by the company this cultural heritage Berazategui awarded.

Paula Lekerman. (Argentina)

Each year a group of experts working in the glass responsible task of jury meets.

Natalia Gerschcovich. (Brazil)

With great number of people, more than 300 people, took place the opening ceremony and prize giving.

This time consisted of:

Maria de Lourdes Zenobi.

(Argentina)

Considered the most important devoted to glass and Latin American Country, unique event with these characteristics, it has received throughout his career involving foreign artists.

This year the exhibit hall a total of 47 works by national and international artist from Spain, Germany, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba), Uruguay and, as usual, from different provinces and cities of Argentina.

Golzman Claudia Marcela Cabutti, Liliana Stola, Guillermo Patiño, Andrew Jacob. As Veronica Avila veedora Fire Arts Director, Municipal School of Glass.

The awards were as follows.

Grand Prize acquisition "BERAZATEGUI, NATIONAL CAPITAL GLASS" Karina Del Savio. (Argentina) Artwork Title: "Sixth Sense."

1st Prize Acquisition "GLASSWARE SAN CARLOS"

Note that throughout his 18 years with an abiding interest in participating artists, is the place where you can see the trend every year in Latin America art glass.

Nicolas Jorge Cuevas. (Argentina)

It is observed as glass hand national artists will posesionando a place within the art circuit internationally.

Maria de los Santos. (Uruguay)

Title of work: "Mind airplane mode".

2nd prize acquisition.

Title of work: "Repairing cracks."

Traditional T ECHNIQUES First Prize: Desert.

With its own characteristics, both aesthetic and creative, which Traditional Techniques Second separates most of the craft that was prize: Desert. observed about five years ago.

Mention to the traditional technique: Proceeds from the maturity of the Sofia Villamarín. (Argentina) overall project of the Municipal School of Glass, which constantly First Prize Nontraditional works on the artistic and technical Techniques: educational profile, with the primary objective of raising the maximum Karina Del Savio. (Argentina) expression of glass in Argentina.

Second prize Nontraditional This year three awards acquiring Techniques:

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References to non-jury Traditional Techniques: Antonella Perrone. (Argentina)

Eduardo Naveira. (Argentina)

Oscar Siffredi. (Argentina) Alejandra Koch. (Argentina) The exhibition was open to the public until September 28, and can be seen at the San Francisco located at 149th Street and 23 city Berazategui, Tuesday to Sunday from 15 to 19 hours Cultural Complex., With free admission.

For more information www.culturaberazategui.gov.ar

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Baccarat, 250 years of art glass.

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Baccarat's illustrious history is characterized by innovation and dazzling creations.

great impact with its beautiful pieces created especially for the royal houses, maharajas, presidents and heads of state, This year, the famous French such as the chandeliers for the house glassware proudly Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the celebrates its 250th anniversary. game of bowls engraved with the Its roots date back to 1764, when initials of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

King Louis XV signed the royal decree for the opening of the first Baccarat is also applauded for glass factory in Lorraine, France. its innovative spirit always: in Over the decades, Baccarat has 1839, the company became the first French factory in producing become a symbol of the best colored glass, an achievement craftsmanship and art de vivre that would give a gold medal at French. the National Exhibition in France.

The magnificent glass creations The new colors including the which include cups, bowls, now famous ruby red, which has candlesticks, perfume bottles become a trademark of this and jewelry have made the luxury brand. brand maintains a strong Other pieces have won several international influence and is awards in various editions of the easily recognizable style.

Universal Exhibition in Paris. A pioneer in its field, Baccarat In the 1920s, Georges Chevalier has produced pieces that have was appointed artistic director of been admired and appreciated Baccarat and propelled the by some of the most famous company into the modern era personalities in history. with impeccable taste, bold His first royal commission came decisions and a rather geometric in 1823, when King Louis XVIII approach in the designs, ordered the production of a glass coinciding with the advent of service.

Modernism and Art Deco .

Other French monarchs such as Chevalier continued to work with the firm until 1970, always Charles X and Louis-Philippe merging his artistic talent with and the Emperor Napoleon III, the traditional roots of Baccarat. were also clients of the Your Solar Clock, originally legendary house. designed in 1948, a stellar solid Globally, Baccarat has had a glass clock that once graced the www.amigosmava.org

Manhattan apartment of playwright Arthur Miller and his wife Marilyn Monroe, has now become a major cause to celebrate the anniversary. To commemorate this historic moment, Baccarat has also launched a special edition of Harcourt glasses, the oldest of the firm. These iconic pieces are innovative and playful style, type of chess game with Japanese design company Nendo Design Studio. Fifty games were created limited edition with chess pieces in light blue and dark blue resting on a large illuminated board.

Create each of these games took more than 200 hours of work.

"Baccarat has a very long history of tradition, but there is always fun in the product, and that's what I want to say," said Oki Sato, Nendo founder.

Baccarat has earned an excellent reputation in the art of glass production. The passion for perfection, impeccable craftsmanship and artistic integrity have provided 250 years of fabulous designs and a strong historical presence. Generation after generation, the elite artisans continue to create high quality products that stay true to the heritage of Baccarat. The firm has shaped industry glass production with timeless works of art that leave a lasting impression.

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Activities in Museums I.

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Activities in Museums II.

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Activities in Museums III.

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Activities on the MAVA. Exposition RRV-14.

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From September 17 to October 6, 2014.

Throughout the course students 2013/2014 the art school of Secondary Education Institutes Ithaca, Alcorcon, Giner, Alcobendas and the School of Art, Palma, Madrid, have been working together to MAVA in the RRV -14 project, Reuse Reinvent Glass 2014.

The challenge was to make

collective works using glass used both hollow and flat, to create sculptures and creative installations.

and made available for student groups his workshop and facilities.

The ultimate goal has been The result has been a set of that young and upcoming pieces of great creativity and artists incorporate glass imagination, some of which between their material tell stories or ideas proposed expression, approaching the by the students and guided challenges imposed by the by the teachers. use of glass but also to its enormous creative potential: The MAVA, and promote this light, transparency, color ... project, has been monitoring all work, has provided advice

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Fair glass in Asturias.

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Taramundi City Council in collaboration with the Government of the Principality of Asturias through the Ministry of Economy and Employment, is preparing to host the first Craft Fair Monograph Creative Glass Center of Crafts and Fine Arts Bres.

Participation in this event is reserved for artisans work glass in any of the offices of this specialty (making stained glass,

blown, decorated, carved, casting, modeling flame and furnace) and whose production is solely the creation and production own.

It will be a fair or meeting small artisans at most 6-7 glass specialists as space to use are the workshops currently available in the Craft Centre.

To facilitate attendance by artisans from other

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communities, the council will provide accommodation nights of Friday 10 and Saturday 11 October in addition to breakfast and lunch on 11 and 12 October.

FAIR GLASS BASES TARAMUNDI APPLICATION AND SHEET GLASS FAIR TARAMUNDI More information: +34 985 64 67 01 (Inés Gil)

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Keep calling crystal glasses.

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In the same way we have to know what is pure gold or 24 carat or 1000 mils and fine gold or 18K or 750 thousandths, etc. etc., we think we should be clear what a "glass" and what a "glass".

According to the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language:

phers to refer to all those who have a solid homogeneous three -dimensional long-range internal order.

Glass: We also clarifies that the glasses do not have an orderly internal structure and are called amorphous.

Big companies like Swarovski, Crystal: a solid whose atoms and maker of many cut glass with various forms of figures and molecules are regularly and other widely used in jewelry, not repeatedly distributed in space. help to differentiate these two Glass: hard, brittle and transpamaterials, glass and glass. His rent or translucent solid, no major advertising campaigns, crystal structure, obtained by websites, distribution of products melting silica sand with potash, for him and her in steel "crystal" that is moldable at elevated does nothing but add fuel to the temperatures. fire, ie confuse the customer who However, the Royal Academy of comes to think that Swarovski Spanish Language also gives crystal is better rock crystal more definition to the word quartz, for example. "glass" in our opinion, confusing: Arise other companies still use Glass: Glass, especially high the same word "crystal" driven by quality the pull of the large firm SwarovGlass: Piece of glass or other like ski, trying to create a niche in the substance that covers a hole in a market and give the end custowindow, in a glass case, etc mer another alternative of "glass".

Crystal: lens glasses.

Nor help clarify the differences between crystal and glass expressions "Murano Glass" or "BoheCrystal: In solid state physics and mia Crystal" when it should be chemistry, a crystal is a homoge- glass Murano glass or Bohemia. neous solid having an internal Glassware, when it should be order of their periodic lattice parti- Glass. cles are atoms, ions or moleculYet this does not do more to es. The word comes from the Greek crystallos, the Greek name distort the spectrum of natural given to a variety of quartz is now crystals gemological confusing the end user, the consumer, crystal rock. which ultimately feeds us.

Glass: Glass is a hard, brittle, There is no sector that contribute transparent and amorphous to clarifying these concepts and inorganic materials found in nature, but can also be produced therefore these products. The CIBJO rules for Commerce Color by humans. stones makes it clear that the The Manual of Mineralogy J. D. markings are "glass" or "imitation Dana tells us that stone ...". CIBJO defined "Crystal" is the word used "Artificial Product" to a product Mineralogists and crystallograthat is in part or in whole, made Wikipedia distinguishes between crystal and glass and defined as:

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by man. Artificial and imitation stones should be named and described according to the terminology and classifications set out in these provisions and in Appendix A. This applies to descriptions in all publications and communications to the public as well as business documents (such as advertising, deals, labels, reminders, invoices and delivery notes) and appraisals, identification reports, certificates, etc.

Carles Baguena already referred in the article "Gemologists distinguish between crystal and glass" and refers to CIBJO "Majorica Pearls" and "Imitation pearls." However, still says nothing about crystals Swarovski "crystals but are not" glass ".

In general, the lack or low gemological training and the fact that it is more profitable to sell (brand) and sell that explain what I am selling, is finding that consumers are confused: I am buying a natural crystal or am buying a brand glass ?.

If there were a Gemologists Association this would not happen. Should leave the product from the factory with its gemological report, endorsed by the responsible gemologist (required his presence in every factory and every jewelry jewelry, plus other sites like Courts, Customs, Police Stations, Banks, etc.) quality gemstones that are crimped in jewelry producing factory. So that the product reaches the end consumer with a certificate of quality raw materials that compose it.

Explaining and signing it is this or that gem, natural, man-made, treated or not, and whether it is diamond, weight, color, purity and quality of its size.

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So did the Roman glass.

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Scientists at the University of Mainz first discover the techniques used to produce glass beads.

This has been achieved thanks to the new technology used, which is based on neutron activation analysis using the TRIGA reactor.

The remains found outside the region Rhaetian deposits in Bavaria, as indicated by analysis of beads made by the TRIGA reactor of the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).

These remains come from different places and most of them dating from 30-60 AD. The rest are from the 4th century AD. both the Roman period.

Sodium is used to make glass, indicating which have been developed near the soda lake, in excavations close to Oberammergau, place of worship for Rhaetians.

Were also able to extract more information about the industry, technology, trade routes and lifestyle of its people, reports Barbara Karches, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry JGU. Thus, you can know that the beads were used as jewelery and sacrificial rituals.

Christian explains Stieghorst, supervisor of the study, the beads have helped determine the settlement dates from the first century BC. Thanks to the technology of neutron activation analysis (NAA for its acronym in English), which uses radiation from the TRIGA reactor, we can identify the elements of the remains of beads found in Oberammergau, Heimstätten, Auerberg and Neubiberg.

According to Dr. Gabriele Hampel, the technology works as follows: "to expose the material to neutron beams, its core becomes unstable. Once

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regains its natural state, the nucleus emits gamma radiation with a unique profile of each component and is useful to identify. " Finally, TRIGA works without damaging the material he said Hampel.

From this radiation exposure, researchers have found that the beads are made of glass of soda with a lower percentage of sodium oxide, which indicates that they come from another area such as soda lake.

Since in ancient times were not available technology to achieve the temperature required to melt the material, the manufacturers of these beads had to use other agents such as potassium hydroxide or natural soda.

The beads are quite striking because of their colorful, obtained through the manipulation of materials with manganese, iron or cobalt.

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Artisan Glass.

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Around the year 1900 the American businessman Franklyn F. Woolworth discovered Lauscha, a small German village, the first Christmas ornaments made of glass.

that has become known outside German borders, country has sold over two million copies. And is that writing The craft of glass has been an experience for this author.

So impressed he was with the work of glass artisans of that place, showing his good business sense - Woolworth managed to create from scratch an entire empire in the early nineteenth century decided to export those precious ornaments States States.

Petra Thus, as a good historian, traveled to Lauscha on different occasions to be documented thoroughly on the process of glass making and its history.

Ornaments that today all we use to decorate our Christmas trees and they did the work of world-renowned German craftsmen.

And this is the story that has led to the glass artisan, a novel in which three sisters, driven by circumstances, defy social rules in a small town in the late nineteenth century.

It is a fictional novel, yes, but well documented; a family saga through which you will discover the origin of the Christmas decorations.

Petra Durst-Benning is the author of this fascinating story

Thus, a highlight of the novel is its setting.

So thorough has been the research of the author trasladarĂĄs you easily, almost without trying, this idyllic village of late nineteenth century.

A dream of independence and freedom From conversations with glassmakers artisans, villagers and their parallel investigations did this story of three sisters after the unexpected death of his father, a glass blower, must take charge of your life and an occupation hitherto blocked for women.

As you can imagine Johanna, Ruth and Marie do not have it

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easy.

Soon the difficulties begin for the sisters. Johanna is harassed by her boss at work in a pharmacy, Ruth married a violent man, and Marie, who has a great talent developing precious glassware, feels no one appreciates their designs.

Finally, the providential encounter with an American trader outputs the beautiful creations of Marie, but will have to fight against many adversities presented to fulfill their dream of independence and freedom.

"Only he who reads a lot can also write" This is the conviction of Petra, a passionate authentic reading already in its earliest stage found that his work would one way or another related to the books.

A woman who, as she herself admits, a trip to the Caribbean finds it less tempting than a good novel and has managed to win a privileged place in the library of German readers; recognition that, with the publication of The artisan glass, also intended to achieve in Spain.

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Perfumes and glass sculptures.

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easy to carry in your wallet.

And cheaper, so easy to buy more variety of aromas. * Practicality made him put aside in many cases glasses and venture into rubber and metal, favorite pair of Armani.

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* The vaporizer leads over splash, although the latter still tend to like more men who prefer to bathe in perfume. The atomizer saves juice and, incidentally, freshens the air. * The package sizes have been adapted to the human hand.

Female bottles are smaller than men's, for easy handling.

Many of the bottles also have a "waist" in the middle to put your hand and hold more easily.

The colors of the bottles also give your message.

Perfumes in the nineteenth and Salvador Dalí (LeRoi century were kept in glass jars Soleil brand that bears his with elaborate detailed and name). intricate carvings.

Today much has been It was in 1921 when Coco achieved in the field of Chanel wanted to have her sculpture and designers own perfume, but not for perfume bottles, real artists personal use but to sell it. take into account details such as the target to which the Since the couturier Paul Poiret product is intended, and had installed the custom of ergonomics, which facilitates giving their clients a thumbnail holding the bottle between with a perfume made your hands. especially for him.

Why have not used since the Coco hired a perfumista- perfumer on the dresser? químico nose Ernest Beaux Because women are practical, was and she designed the nomadic and independent. rectangular bottle and stripped to contain the legendary Like to wear fragrance in the Chanel No. 5, a friend and portfolio in small, unbreakable admirer of the Cubist painters, bottles and just squeeze the including Picasso, thought a spray, put a touch of seduction clean jar, net, free arabesques they need. that used to decorate the These are some of the glasses of traditional developments of recent times: fragrances. * Because the bottles are not Other famous artists entered very large estilan, and 100 ml this métier as René Lalique are less popular than 30 ml, (L'Air du Temps by Nina Ricci)

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* Transparency speaks of a direct content, a fragrance without much complexity, sophisticated but limpid. * The blue jars or speak of a heavenly aroma -ozónicas aquatic notes, as when it is llover- or ethereal, flowing in the air. * Pink flower juices speak where, of course, do not miss the queen of flowers: the rose. * The green bottles indicate that the fragrance will plant, with notes of leaves, moss and forest evocation. Usually they are male. * If abundant red, talk about passion and oriental notes.

When combined with plug or gold accents is surely of luxury. * Yellow is the summer and fun.

Perfumes and young warm. * Modernity? The black and silver metal. Usually indicate a unisex product use.

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Glass art and jewelery.

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Light is one of the worst enemies of art. Your feedback on these valuable pieces can become destructive.

The board is connected to the electrical system and, through infrared proximity sensors, the material becomes transparent only when someone "to less than To protect the works of the possible photochemical damage, one meter 'is coming away. museums have few alternatives, This is possible because the which mainly go to reduce light glass used is the SPD levels (both ultraviolet and visible (Suspended particle devices), in and infrared) in the halls. which the particles are oriented "Instead of creating galleries with at random as it does not apply a dim lighting, why not just put the voltage, aligned and then transferred allow light. It also work in the dark? '. This is the automatically adjusts the amount question that was raised Domoticware company, based in of light entering the sensitivity function of the object.

Elche. His solution? A unique display case with four sheets of Completed development of the smart glass, allows 360 ° view of material, the company decided the artwork. to give your product an extra The glass is opaque technology, added value to their technology. keeping the object in complete darkness. Only when a visitor approaches, the glass becomes transparent and the object becomes visible.

Now throw a second version where the exhibitor sensorized kept continuously informed the owner of the conditions of parts.

The DX-1 cabinet, which is already used in the Museum of Spanish Guitar Almería, is formed by a special laminated glass with an inner layer incorporating an electrical signal.

To fulfill this purpose he has chosen to introduce computers in the window.

This new version, the DX-2, will be released later this year. The goal is to maintain control of the site at all times. "It is very useful for highly sensitive to light objects such as manuscripts, 'says Manoj Phatak, CEO and founder of Domoticware.

Through the use of temperature and humidity sensors, exhibitors collects real-time data from the work environment such as temperature, humidity,

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irradiance, proximity or exposure to sunlight.

The owner can access this information from any device connected to the Wi-Fi through the intranet system, and access to historical data. "We can automatically learn from how much light enters the cabinet until many seconds people spend in front of each piece," says Phatak.

The aid therefore, to "reduce photochemical damage and prolong the lifetime 'of copies system.

Domoticware direct the exhibitor DX-2 to different channels. The first managers of art are of modest size, they "have a team of restorers responsible for ongoing maintenance of the works but need a thorough control." The second fits with a trend in the United States dubbed "green museums." This movement is to use natural resources to reduce the carbon footprint of the galleries. "With our showcase museums can let more sunlight into the rooms while protecting the collections," he says. Finally, its qualities make intelligent table DX-2 in a "very fit" solution to the luxury shops and private art collectors, a foreign sector to the economic crisis.

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Dani Alves with Alba Martin.

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literalness with 80 pieces artists of the nineteenth century and early twentieth.

The intention of the curator Javier Barón, conservative Prado is to prove that, once consumed over two hundred years of art historical misrepresentations and misunderstandings, it is impossible to overstate the spell exercised by the Greek artist at birth and first steps of modern art .

Last September we visited last week), yield a very the exhibition of works by El different picture of his clean Greco in the Prado Museum. and topical conveniently With the exhibition "El Greco figure; Catholic painter, spirituality and corroded and modern painting", Museum adds up to five this blinded by patriotic rancidity, was actually a cosmopolitan October celebrations of the artist and author of fourth anniversary of the philosophical ways a disappearance of the artist. surprisingly influential in the A date which, in view of what avant corpus. had so far (the successful 26 works by El Greco appointment of the Greek (including outstanding loans Toledo and nearly 250,000 arduos--and, as the darkly visitors, according to the majestic Laocoon, come to organization, the El Greco the National Gallery in Foundation 2014, and El Washington, or San Juan's Greco's library, which lines up in the Madrid gallery her vision, the Metropolitan) face varying degrees of

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To each other, the Greco represented the discovery of an unknown artist, "transterrado a powerful nation but then once peripheral," as was Spain.

"They had often the feeling of discovering an almost hidden treasure," explains curator Javier Barón.

That discovery unaterra incognita Spanish artists also participated; since that grieving nation, 98 wounds licked, the memory of the late Golden Age maybe more like longing for an invisible republic than real estate.

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Concerts in the MAVA.

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We continue to make efforts, through the Fundación Miguel Angel Colmenero, to begin our new season of monthly concerts with a concert to be held on the evening of Friday 17th October this 

month.

Because groups that are based in different conservatories of Madrid, and collaborating with our "MAVA Concert" program, beginning this month their activities is complex to

contact them for conducting concerts.

Try, therefore, to have the participation of a group as soon as possible so we can start our program this October.

Guitar cycle.

The next day, October 24 I will begin our CLASSICAL GUITAR SERIES "CASTLE VALDERAS".

As in the case of I Cycle Piano performed in the past year, this Classical Guitar Series will feature a five performances and will be done in full, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Art Glass Alcorcon.

Cycle All concerts will be held at 7 pm Friday and included between said on 24 and 21 November.

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The glass in Museums: Tiffin.

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The Tiffin Glass Museum honors the heritage established by the men and women of Tiffin’s “Glass House.”

Through preservation and education, the Museum safeguards glassware made by the artisans from the factory’s nearly hundredyear history.

South Washington Street in downtown Tiffin, Ohio.

The Museum is the culmination of preservation efforts by members of the Tiffin Glass Collectors Club.

A display of over 2000 pieces of Tiffin Glass is arranged chronologically in beautiful oak cabinets.

Many pieces on display have been loaned by members of the Tiffin Glass Collectors Club.

Museum preservation work includes acquiring memorabilia and historical documents from the factory’s The exhibit presents beginning in 1889 until its examples of the glassware closing in 1984. produced at the Tiffin factory Among the items shown at from its beginning in 1889 as the Museum are popular the A. J. Beatty & Sons lines, stemware, lamps, Company until the end of optics, and colors used production in 1980 as the throughout the factory’s Tiffin Glass Company. productive years.

Many memorabilia items are An exciting new era in the displayed as well. preservation of Tiffin Glass Other items will be added as was begun on November 6, the Museum continues to 1998 with the opening of the develop and grow.

Tiffin Glass Museum at 25

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Plans are underway to include a library where glass students can research their favorite glassware.

The Glass Museum is staffed by volunteers, open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday with other hours by appointment.

To schedule a tour, contact the Museum director at 419448-0200.

Admission is free.

Donations of glassware, time, and memorabilia are welcome.

We also greatly appreciate monetary donations.

Why not include a trip to the Museum in your travel plans?

You will enjoy viewing the beautiful glassware that was produced by the skilled Tiffin Glassmasters.

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Piece of the month the Museum of Segovia.

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The 'Piece of the month' is an activity that makes the Museum throughout the year in order to bring the public funds that make up the permanent exhibition, offering visitors a monographic account of representative pieces of a period or artistic expression that are selected and renewed every month.

Located in Room B of the Museum, entitled 'From the first settlers to the early medieval world', this piece comes from the excavations conducted in the Plaza de Guevara de Segovia in 1996, which were the partial remains of a Roman building collapse the first century. C.

The piece, which received guided tour on Saturday from 13.00 to 13.30, has During September, the Museum of Segovia source selected Roman glass a flat bottom and walls forming a Guevara Square, dating from the time smooth concave curve to the edge, of the Roman Empire, between III and topped by a rope-like decoration, perhaps reminiscent vetro to retorti, or V d centuries. C. glass with twists, a type of blown glass This is a colorless and translucent made with canes that have been part, with few bubbles, indicating a twisted to form spiral patterns. high melting temperature.

The top of the walls and the edge It can be classified as a source, since decorated in small rectangular the diameter of the opening is over 24 coffered rounded corners. inches tall and just over one-seventh The main decorative motif at the base of its diameter. of the fountain, is a geometric The basic measurements are 32.4 composition of 40 stylized petals that inches in diameter and 4.8 in height, leave the center circle and bow and body thickness varies according to denoting movement in the opposite the area of the part, from 3.57 up to direction clockwise.

7.99 mm, a characteristic of the glassy Chronology of the Late Roman Empire productions to mold.

The technique used for making this source is therefore a mold and presents relief decoration by grinding.

Both practices are clearly seen by the presence of brands: mold lines, which test the application of pressure molded, and carved markings on the rear cold.

The center circle of 2.6 inches, is not merely decorative, but also typical of the work done with this technique.

elevation of the source of the Plaza de Guevara, as well as the edges are shorter and are slightly warped down, partly as a result of the sale of retorti inspiration.

According to research, the source mimics certainly ways to containers made of precious metals such as silver or bronze, very common in the ancient glass production, as witnessed by several parallel cases.

Specifically, one near a silver dish with similar piece of the month, which is in the British Museum, AF.3277, dated between the IV and V centuries d decor. C. Everything points therefore to a late date, between III and V d centuries. C. The decor itself is also an indication that supports this chronology.

The glass containers luxury Romanand the fountain in the Plaza de Guevara belongs to this categoryfigurative motifs often present, especially in the early empire.

But this feature changed from the third century. C., when the decorating This source is a difficult part of dating, begins tender of geometry and at least just for their formal and abstraction, probably by the process of decorative features. 'barbarizaciĂłn' experienced by the The shape is almost exactly the 'Isings empire.

97a.b', a typology originated in the The helical design starring decoration second century. C. or early third source is a good example of this type century. C., but at least it remained in of complex geometrical development, use until the fourth century. quite apart from the figurative motifs on own glass classical Roman world.

The main difference with the 'Isings 97a.b' is located at the highest

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In this life you have left four news.

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Juan Manuel García Ruiz is about to finish the installation of the exhibition on crystals in the House of Sciences of Seville.

It is the International Year of Crystallography, and the show aims to teach the public how important keep the crystals: from the formation of bones and teeth to the most amazing mineralogical structures such as plasters 10m Naica in Mexico or the pocket Pulpí giant.

anthropomorphic stones, shaped penis or breast, and glass. Imagine something transparent, with straight faces, how to draw the attention, because the straight faces do not occur in nature, should think it was strange not there. That is the first theological, mythological, free crystals, which reaches up to the crystals that have been conceived as talismans.

- And the flamenco?

- In the nineteenth century the theory - You see glass everywhere. of crystal formula, is the order.

German philosophy includes it as - Yes, of course. something that means order, - Less In this glass. perfection, beauty, power, intelligence, reasoning. In 2001 Odyssey, the - That's not glass, is glass. Is glass, monolith is a crystal, it is God or glasses, window. whatever. And there is a beautiful - What differences are there? story between Lorca and Dalí. Lorca's Ode to Dali is a love letter, obviously, - The glass material is the ordinate is the difference between the amorphous but it's a debate about beauty and crystals. Dalí was a supporter of carbon and diamond. crystal purity, of lines, of cubism, art - What about the name confusion? dispassionate. And Lorca, rose, curve, sensuality, passion. It is the verse - The word crystal comes from the Poet in New York says: "Killed by the Greek, and then be used by the sky, the skyline is among the ways Romans. They used to refer to the that lead to the tiller and forms that go quartz crystal, crystal rock. Glass to the glass, I let my hair grow." And comes from cryo cold. They believed that quartz was supercooled water so with that, I made a choreography in which the dancers move against these cold it could not be melted again. two opposing ideas. Of course, now There are crystals in Spain, in we are looking for funding, which is Segóbriga in Cuenca, which are the usual problem. plaster and glass Romans called Hispania, because it was not quartz. It - Go. was plaster, but as it was transparent and faceted glass also called him. The - Luis Buñuel is the first one to be Paris, is taking Eisestein contact with cut, which prepared and exported Le Corbusier, is the glass as the throughout the Empire, until the Romans started using the technique of canon of beauty. Buñuel and Dalí writes to, and explains that his friend flat glass and already replaced the windows. Segobriga sinks, but that he Lorca was not going down that road that wound its way to Paris. is also called crystal glass, steal the word.

- Is there a crystalline behavior in the origin of life?

- And what of flamenco and crystallography? One of the activities - Life is a form of self-organization, that are preparing. and is so complicated that it is impossible to explain if the chemical - The idea of glass has been very reaction is not catalyzed. I think there influential in art and thought. One of the first objects that hominids collected was a contribution of the crystals as a

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catalyst for such reactions. No demonstration of the role of minerals, or glass, in the origin of life, but there is great suspicion.

- ¿Cabe Disorder in the universe?

- The glass is more common, but less powerful than life. It is an earlier stage of life, which is something that you get four news from the geological point of view.

- How? - From a point geologically. The universe begins with helium and hydrogen, the universe's history is a history of increasing information. From these two elements, there are some more then simple molecular components are formed, it will increase its size, there planets, there is an interaction of the mineral with the water, the life is created, one unicellular living and flows multicellular life and that creates organisms evolve to man, which is what creates consciousness. Each time, the connection information is greater, and once created awareness, we create the possibility of machines that are able to relate, and this, for example, is the internet. This is already occurring at the rate of exponential growth. This leads to a number of development that will exceed our body made of a rudimentary biochemistry. It will be something that does not depend on a body, something as outdated. A stadium's media. Is that even this body is not worth because it evolved to run in front of and behind the lions partridges, and not going before nor lions or no partridges.

- Caduco.

- The mismatch between our body and our ambition is tremendous; As the gap between technological and social development. Our ability to do harm is far greater than making something in common, it's a tremendous difference, we have not advanced very little in how to organize ourselves socially.

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The glass of Chris Wood.

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The Cambridgeshirebased artist Chris Wood apparently uses simple geometric arrangements of glass to create colorful light patterns that dazzle.

She uses a type known as dichroic glass (two colors), which contains a special coating that alter the wavelengths of light passing through it.

The light is then directed to the provisions of Wood, with special material in the glass altering the color and direction of the reflected light.

The end result is a complex range of colors and beautiful patterns constantly changing.

Chris describes his art, saying "the glass is a

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material that allows me to exploit the aesthetic potential of Light.

The minimum structures support simple arrangements of glass, which interact with light to create complex patterns of light and shadow that change depending on the viewer's position and angle of the light source�.

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Recycling. Problems in bars and restaurants.

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some hoteliers for possible inconveniences believes them back storage and packaging."

This system moves daily on over 300,000 bars, cafes and restaurants around Spain 15 million bottles, mainly beer, sodas and water. Over 60% of beverages in reusable containers Horeca channel, but from the distribution system are threatening the recovery. "For a decade these containers in beer and soft drinks declined by 20%, especially because of the cans," he adds Fernandez.

Eleven-thirty in the evening. An employee of a bar located in Madrid's Carabanchel district in Madrid a box with empty glass bottles on a gray container, not the green igloo it deserves and that is thirty feet away.

For several days, professional colleagues from three other nearby bars and cafes make the same operation. The distance to the container, lack of time, habit and space and templates dwindling and overwhelmed are cited by the industry as factors that do not rise more than the recycling rate in the channel restoration hotels, restaurants and cafes, known by the acronym Horeca. However, they are most glass reused.

The crisis has also prompted some restaurateurs looking in supermarkets, mainly in the cash number of containers that have a and carry chains (purchase and wider mouth and a hydraulic lift win) for wholesalers, cheaper system for easy emptying. products packaged in cans or glass single use.

Along with these and other initiatives such as awareness According to Brewers Spain, campaign Collejeros starring which brings together producers Antonio Resines and José Mota, of our country, between 2007 and Nunez-Lagos mentions "the 2013 the number of returnable impulse to the door to door beer bottles placed on the market collection, especially in the per year (all in the Horeca historic centers of cities where channel) has changed from 3100there is no container local 2400 million. By contrast, the actions at major sporting and cans have risen 2500-2800 cultural events and agreements million, and of these, more than with municipalities to increase 900 million are entering bars and the ratio of containers per restaurants. "Also the glass person. "In this respect quotes single use, such as in soft drinks, Malaga and Madrid as two large and plastic in the water, removing cities where there is much room market is returnable containers," for improvement. recalls director Fedis Horeca.

Clearly there is a noticeable interest in increasing the recycling of glass consumed in the Horeca channel. However, it is not so well known that in cafes, bars and restaurants the highest rate of return packaging for reuse these features is maintained.

Since Returns association that promotes the implementation in Spain of a deposit system and return system (DRS), also recognized that "Horeca already have a deposit system for reusable containers has been running efficiently for years, but the emergence of single-use containers without deposit has Two of the four activities planned The famous return, which has for this year are focused on him virtually disappeared from shops created a distortion in the sector. " giving boost special recycling and supermarkets, hotels and bins for catering to facilitate reigns in the total data exceeds Once gone from the shops, to emptying the containers and recycled glass in Spain.

Return the DRS is the only tool increase complementary and that can also slow its demise in According to the latest figures collected door-to-door in key hospitality. For returns, this provided by Ecovidrio, this areas. system "that eliminates distortion, amounted to 850,000 tons in ensuring the survival of reusable "We know that the recycling rate 2013, of which 688,000 were is the same percentage, 66%, from green igloos located in the packaging and can achieve recycling rates of over 90%." than in the home, but still want to streets. promote it because we know that José Manuel Fernández added The Spanish Federation of in cafes and nightclubs is less that "if corrective measures are Distribution Companies Hotels than in hotels and restaurants," not taken, binding targets are said José Manuel Nunez Lagos, and Restaurants (Fedis Horeca) marked more than 5,000 million estimates that hoteliers back 1.1 CEO of Ecovidrio. reusable packaging consumed million tonnes of glass per year within the annual Horeca may So far 68,000 bins have been for subsequent filling. disappear in practice, as delivered to hoteliers and want to José Manuel Fernández, CEO of happened a few years ago with reach over 150,000 by 2020, Fedis Horeca, branded as one liter format in beer in the providing 30,000 each year, in "anecdotal complaints from supply channel. " addition to expanding the In Ecovidrio, manager of the integrated management of packaging waste glass system are aware of the field that remains to be covered in the Horeca channel, where 48% of all glass single-use market stall in Spain is consumed.

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Dream Garden, in Filadelfia.

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The fifth city with largest population in America is Philadelphia.

It is northwest of the country, at the confluence of two rivers, and the first European settlement was founded in the seventeenth century by the Dutch.

We found him in the lobby of the Curtis Center building, located in the Plaza turn Washington.

Curtis, to decorate his headquarters in the city.

The Dream Garden mural is on display from that year and indelibly the lobby of the building.

It is a treasure made of more than one hundred thousand pieces of colored The Dream Garden in glass and very bright.

Philadelphia mural is Thus, such a combination composed of 24 panels that makes it a work of art.

Today is a big city and were installed after six interesting to explore.

Glass mosaics were made months of work.

by Louis Comfort Tiffany It has many museums, In 1998 he was put up for studios to give life to the some of them related to sale and there was a vision of Maxfield Parrish, the history of the United serious attempt by a casino creator of the original States, so it's a city that mogul to buy it, but the city drawing. can not be overlooked. protested and eventually The wall dates from 1916 the Academy of Fine Arts in Among the attractions of and was commissioned by Philadelphia bought. It can Philadelphia is the fantastic the owner of The Saturday be visited from Monday to glass mural called Dream Evening Post, Cyrus Saturday.

Garden.

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In this section we detail the activities which take place this month, corresponding to the cultural visits related to the glass and outputs that we as provided in the program CULTURE 2014.

 Cultural Tours.

The next day, October 5, we will visit the town of Burgos Aranda de Duero to attend the inauguration of the exhibition that the Collective Vidrieros Segovia will ride Art & Wine.

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Contributors to this exhibition Azidaglass workshops, Martín Alba, Artis Vitrearum, Juan Carrero Latorre, Valango and Manuel Dominguez.

In our next newsletter in November we mention this visit and we will include images that will capture at the event.

 Culture 2014 Programme.

In this October visit the exhibition "Sorolla and America" at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid.

The exhibition presents the great triumph of Joaquín Sorolla in the United States and will meet for the first time in Spain an important group of works that were exhibited by the artist in his American samples and purchased by collectors and

museums in the United States.

The exhibition will appreciate unseen works of the fullness of the Spanish artist.

social realism and so appear in all these works.

The influence of artists such as Velázquez and Nordic artists shaped the construction of a single, proud and original style that today is easily recognizable anywhere in the world.

The painter's style evolution within the major trends in painting can be seen in these important early works in his time chairing the Hours: Monday: 14 to European art contests. 20 Tuesday to Saturday from 10 to 20 Sundays The themes of fashion and holidays from 12 to at that time was the 20.

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The Glass Museum Malaga among the best.

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TripAdvisor, the largest travel website in the world, presented the winners of the Travellers' ChoiceTM attractions for museums around the world.

Museo Sorolla in Madrid, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC in In this edition, we have Barcelona, the Dalí Theatre awarded 10 Spanish -Museum in Figueres, the museums, 2 of them at Museum of Glass and European level, with one of Malaga and CosmoCaixa in In total, identified Top 25 them in the Top 10 World.

Barcelona. global winners, including The Museo del Prado in listings for Asia, Canada, "Some of the most Madrid, has been Europe, South America, important cultural recognized as 5th best the South Pacific, the UK institutions in the world are museum in Europe and 9th and the USA represented within the worldwide.

Travellers' ChoiceTM The Travellers' Choice Also, the ThyssenMuseums through shared Hotels awards honor the Bornemisza Museum in by millions of travelers most important tourist Madrid has also been worldwide feedback," says spots worldwide based on awarded the 24th Blanca Zayas, millions of valuable reviews European seat.

Communications of and opinions from International Spain.

Other Spanish museums TripAdvisor travelers. also have been awarded "Including some of the best The winners were nationally as the artistic discoveries, determined using an Guggenheim Museum in scientific and historical algorithm that takes into Bilbao, the City of Arts and world events, these account the quantity and Sciences in Valencia, the attractions offer both world quality of comments for Museo Nacional Centro de class and enriching museums around the Arte Reina Sofia and the educational experiences." world, over a period of 12 months.

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Other trends. Foundation Juan March.

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The Juan March Foundation presented its musical programming for the 20142015 season.

There will be 23 thematic cycles spanning 150 concerts.

The Saturdays "lighter music" plays, said the director of music programming, Miguel Angel Marin, adding that it will also be dedicated to "explain the music."

So the blues period in November followed by the instrumental Oddities, a repertoire from the sixteenth To avoid the queues that to the twenty-first written for have formed in previous seasons, the public can book virginal, harpsichord, cello arm pédalier piano, your ticket online. harmonica and glass The composers most sound Martenot waves. this period are Bartok, Bach, Another interesting content Liszt, Janáček, Mozart, Saturday is called with the among others. name of BACH, the four The organization has letters of the name of the developed an interactive German composer have a video for didactic activities musical equivalence (Bb, A, with institutes.

C, Si).

The thematic cycles will be These notes have been used developed on specific days by composers from around of the week. the world to challenge his This means almost a daily concert free of charge.

For example, Wednesdays will be allocated to the musical universe of Thomas Mann in November and December, The anti-modern (Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, to name a few) in January, and the Pre (Fauré, Frank, Saint-Saens) in April 2015.

contrapuntal skills.

Young Performers cycle turns 40 and can be seen in the morning on Mondays and Sundays.

interaction with the European avant-garde, for example, in the theme Friday.

For those unable to attend the foundation's headquarters, Wednesday concerts will be broadcast on Radio Classic and on Saturday Cat Music.

Learning activities this year are supported by an interactive video of multiple choice questions.

The tool also inspires visual auditory attention with a not so known repertoire and is linked to the programming foundation.

School students learn to understand rhythmic structures in a classroom and will then enjoy a concert I learned.

The aim is to "build an audience" to hear music in the future with a greater degree of perception and appreciation.

The Juan March Foundation enjoys a "full sovereignty This season also makes an both in assets and in emphasis on the intersection planning their cultural between popular and programming," said its classical music: quadrilles, director, Javier Goma. boleros, African polyrhythms, tango and the strains in their

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The glass in the pressure filters.

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For several years the glass filtration is replacing traditional silica sand in pool leaks and industrial.

Spain has been one of the pioneers in this new glass filtration technology, which basically improves the performance of the filters designed for silica sand and weaker points, such as compaction and generating BIOFILM within the mass filter.

Since 2009 the Group Camacho has developed a filter media based on high quality glass, to prevent agglomeration of the particles and filter medium caking.

The compaction of the filter medium in the pressure filter is a major cause of yield loss and excessive power consumption in the filtration of water.

Silica sand (or silicon) shares the same characteristics as a very small stone, with its edges, cracks and imperfections.

In these imperfections and cracks the BIOFILM is generated, compacting over time the filter media.

The "glass sand" as a filter medium lacking these imperfections and its particles are flat on their surface, leading to the generation of life inside the filter.

That is why the sand can be used as a substrate for plants and no glass.

IMPROVING EFFICIENCY AND SAVINGS IN WATER LEAKS In industrial or large public pools, where control of all parameters are easily tracked leaks, we can see that the pressures of work

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and times of backwashing are much lower with glass filtration with sand silica.

And these numbers improve dramatically as it compacts the sand is coming and its time to replace.

GLASS FILTERS REVERSE OSMOSIS In RO plants Glass Works Nature in its "Stage 2", which is thinner than the pool, and calibrated to retain particles down to 5 microns at low speed, it has seen have lengthened the life of accurate cartridges membranes Reverse Osmosis.

This is because the water that comes to the filter cartridges is more pure and free silica.

This generates energy saving hours of filtration and pressure drop work.

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Sergio Galán presents its "Series".

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art, is to present the series I've been working around the last 35 years, "said Galán.

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The maximum inspiration that has shaped the career of this artist has been pre-Hispanic art, something that can be seen in detail in parts of great dimension, which has managed to combine it with the side to make creations with glass, an art form that emerged thanks to his studies as an industrial designer.

Elements such as stone, wood and glass can be admired through the sculpture, thanks to the ingenuity and creativity in his art overflowing with these components the royal artist Sergio Galan, who presented his first solo exhibition called Series in Fatima Plaza Cultural Center, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, from Wednesday 10 September.

Pricked with a weight of 250 kilograms, based on

the Mayan acantes Parts and ceremonial figures, all made of stone slab and various purely experimental figures made of glass, comprise the 14 works in this exhibition with which the sculptor celebrates 35 years of artistic career.

"They are a sample of each series, which are flagstone, which singles out largely my work, which was purely accidental meet it and transform as a vehicle of

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"Of course it's an inspiration to me, it is a preHispanic connotation, the acantes, the standing stones that are Maya and ceremonial tablets, and what glass is like a game nothing but no less complicated, certainly for very foolish people, because if you mess up the piece is broken, "said Galán.

Love of pre-Columbian Mexican art in their roots to the liking by the glass, is the sample exposure Series, Sergio Galán be performing until October 5 in the aforementioned sampetrino cultural precinct.

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Glass Drops in Tokyo.

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An installation designed by the Architects Torafu that apparent drops in glass with bubbles inside seem to fall from the ceiling in the gallery of Toky Konica Minolta Plaza.

The installation of 'water balloons' was created for the Eco & Art Award 2014

exhibition.

The designers worked with a glass artist to form a series of lamps handmade from recycled materials.

Small air bubbles fill the glass bulb and it is illuminated by an LED source hidden on top, making the light to filter through both.

This results in a small The 'water balloon' is a accumulated reflection lamp with the same visual inside areas forming an properties as a liquid asymmetrical tear. drop.

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2014 National Crafts Awards.

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The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism announces the ninth annual National Crafts Awards, designed to give institutional recognition at the highest level to those activities generally recognized as excellent and exemplary in the field of contemporary craft.

Product Award: for those products or collections made and sold in the two years preceding the date of publication of this announcement and to a greater extent comply with the evaluation criteria set out in Annex I of the order.

initiatives to promote craft completed at least prior to the date of publication of this announcement year.

Promote Award for Public Entities: institutions or agencies shall be eligible for this award by submitting their programs, campaigns or initiatives to Entrepreneurship Award: promote craft completed This call aims to promote The award is intended to at least prior to the date of the development and reward the entrepreneur publication of this competitiveness of small or entrepreneurial announcement year. and medium-sized craft company that is known The deadline for businesses, encouraging for introducing new applications is October innovation, design and concepts in the field in 29. adaptability to the market. any of the areas related Attachments in the rules to the same product, The National Crafts of the competition, in distribution, marketing, Awards 2014 include the design, etc., recognizing which all necessary following categories: information is specified for their ability to provide National Crafts Award: the innovative solutions that nominations are available. award in which the set of have allowed it to The web form a consolidated, position itself in the www.premiosnacionalesd comprehensive market. eartesania.com be competitiveness factors operational shortly.

Promote Award for referred to in the various Private Entities: More information and forms of the prizes listed institutions or private help: in this section work is bodies shall be eligible premisoartesania@eoi.es recognized, according to for this award by the evaluation criteria set www.premiosnacionalesd submitting their out in Annex I of order. programs, campaigns or eartesania.com

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Collective glassmakers Segovia.

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Collective Exhibition throughout the month Vidrieros of Segovia, of October.

Art & Wine (Aranda de Duero - Burgos),

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The inauguration on Sunday, October 5 will be held at 13:00.

You are all invited !!

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How does.

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This month we include some pictures of the technique practiced by Jörg Zimermann.

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Pontevedresa looking glass markets.

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Encourage the expansion and development of companies in recognition of glass processing Galicia. sector in international markets.

"In the 1999-2000 academic This is the ultimate goal of the year we decided that a good partnership developed in way to do it was to work with recent months by the companies from various University of Santiago de sectors of Galicia, to study Compostela (USC) and Crystal internationalization and identify Pontevedresa. opportunities for them abroad.

Through the Master in Management of Foreign Trade (MASCOMEX), organized by the USC, has made a study of internationalization of the Galician company, in order to analyze their potential as an exporting company and selecting target markets, establishing a ranking priority target markets to which its international activity.

In the second phase, market studies of selected priority countries were presented, including competitive analysis, determinants of demand, distribution channels, pricing analysis and other marketing factors.

Since then there have been numerous companies with which they have worked, this year has been Cristal Pontevedresa, last year it was Tower NuĂąez, the former Bay Software and a long etc., and always choose competitive companies that are starting to expand exterior, whose address is highly committed to the internationalization and also actively involved in our learning process.

This ensures that our cooperation will be productive and effective in their international development.

This is also the case of Cristal Pontevedresa a wonderful representative of the This work has been carried out possibilities for the sector of in this edition of MASCOMEX processed glass to compete 2013-2014, one of the masters successfully in international of the most prestigious USC, markets, "says its director, which started in 1991 with the Miguel Otero. mission to train experts in internationalization of "This collaboration with the companies, foreign trade and USC is for Cristal international business, Pontevedresa a great contribute to the international opportunity to contribute to the training of professionals in www.amigosmava.org

foreign trade, and to do well identifying opportunities for growth in those international markets that are more demanding in glass manufacturing. It is definitely a unique synergy and an example of integration between the academic and business worlds, with one objective: to promote the growth of our business beyond our borders, "explains Francisco Barbeito, General Manager of Crystal Pontevedresa.

Into new markets After more than five decades of experience in the world of glass, the Galician company has launched Cristal Pontevedresa exploring foreign markets Hand Next ICEX program. France is its first destination.

Go to the prescriber channel and provide flexibility for custom products specific to each project, have been key elements in the first international steps of the company.

His next target markets are Morocco, Portugal and the UK. With internationalization, Crystal Pontevedresa can cope with greater guarantees the collapse of the housing market and construction in Spain.

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Glass craft and resale in Puerto Rico.

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The handcrafted pieces made up the island admiration of the local and international audience to the high degree of creativity, variety, detail, the taste of Puerto Rico in the artisans display their creations.

Just visit the popular craft fairs across the island to realize the wide selection of items that the hands of a craftsman can create for the enjoyment of fans of this kind of art.

But, what are the top 10 best selling crafts on the island? The answer varies depending on the craftsman who you ask.

For Carmen Hurtado, founder of the Movement Artisans Rio Grande and Eastern (Movi-Art) Area, keychains made with bamboo plants are among the best sellers, followed by piggy and garments made with this material.

"They are well useful materials in Puerto Rico because people always wear their belts, and sandals are sold far because we are in a tropical country," he said.

Cesar Cruz, many collectors buy prints of Puerto Rico in miniature.

"Many shopping canoe, fighting cocks, takes the coqui. These prints are inspired by the culture of Puerto Rico and many people like, "said Cruz, adding necklaces with figures of animals like the tortoise and owl have also taken out.

"Here in Puerto Rico are not widely used but many boots sandals and leather are very comfortable and durable because the material is good.

According to respondents, many I've had no complaints, "said the people in Puerto Rico community craftsman with 39 years of supports the local craftsman, but experience. warned that when people buy For craft items, displays and crafts should seek to know if the necklaces made of glass artisan retailer is certified by the discarded in the sea have much Society of Industrial Development. output at fairs.

Hurtado raised the alert that there When speaking of discarded are people who claim to be glass refers to beer bottles, wine craftsmen and are not certified glass or other material that and are "resellers" of imported people throw into the sea. parts.

Saltwater polished glass and sharp edges, making it ideal to create garments.

This fraudulent practice has taken away business to local artisans.

"People have to know what you In many cases, the artisans use are buying because there are wires to give these items a more things sell out. These pieces are attractive style, the craft said not native to Puerto Rico and so Wanda Hernandez. deceive people. We, the artisans have still beaten by this fraud.

"This type of clothing is sold that He added that residents of When people go to buy it ask the much, at least, the tourist when it Puerto Rico also like to buy artisan craft if you are certified for comes to Puerto Rico known. bamboo keychains as a reminder not taking him silly with things Furthermore, there are people to be a handmade piece that brought from outside, "he said. who collect them, "he said. many use.

Spanish artisans, do you sound The size of animals and pictures For the craftsman Carlos Lopez, sad this music? of Puerto Rico can not miss in the list of best-selling handcrafts the homes of many lovers of belts and leather sandals are crafts. According to the artisan, added.

"It depends on the audience, but my experience is that tourists will like small crafts that do not have a lot of weight," said Hurtado, who is an artisan for 20 years.

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Low-e glass.

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Often see wooden houses with large glass facades, these are lowemissivity glass, as windows are one of the points to which less attention is paid, a good choice allows for huge energy savings and therefore economic .

The low emissivity glass or also called smart windows are those that improve the thermal insulation capacity of a house by adhesion to glass with a film of metal oxides and precipitation

of salts thanks to new technologies.

This standard glasses are improved, allowing better isolation but in turn filtered sunlight and heat.

The film is placed on one side of the double glazing glass.

Its use is not new in our country but until now has been used in very cold areas, letting the light in winter and heat in summer avoiding inside wooden houses.

Combining these low emission glass with

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guidance, a good design of the wooden house and a thermal and acoustic insulation of walls and floors, along with other wooden structures such as porches, got to have an excellent and efficient wooden house for many years with high comfort.

On the other hand, is not always necessary to install on all windows of low-emissivity glass house, so the front further north will not get as hot as the rest of them.

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Window inspired by the sight of a camel.

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The Patent Office of the United States just officially make public U.S. Patent 8,820,010 B2, ecological and energy efficient window invented by architect Fernando Abruña and developed by engineer Jesus "Chico" Sosa, president of the company Valcor, in Gurabo (Puerto Rico).

"I wanted to mimic nature because camels have three eyelids. Two are to protect the oculus, and the other tabs to protect them from sandstorms.

We thought we were missing in the tropics these 'tabs' to protect us from the storms. A window is like the eyes of a building. I thought that if the eye of the camel protects their sandstorms, why not develop some eyelids to protect us from the storms of the tropics ", raised Abruña in conversation with the magazine Building, where the architect regularly publishes Dialogando Green column.

The window consists of several modules of three glass louvers six inches and a shade tray (aluminum) 18 inches deep each.

This tray acts as a lid over the glass louvers.

Brightshade is actually the

evolution of latticed windows traditionally used in the Caribbean.

The aluminum tray throws shadows, as if already installed eaves.

more effective and how it looks so far, the patent is approved.

"The window was superchévere" says the architect who has excelled in their projects of sustainable architecture in harmony with the environment as the solar house.

That allows the lattice glass, whether they are open for natural ventilation or closed for air conditioning, will be in The cost of the window will be shadow because they have about $ 20 per square foot. that integrated forward.

It is reasonable because it says During thunderstorms, trays "any sata window around $ 12 aluminum overlapping a square foot. And if you add shadows on the glass, acting grilles and shutters end up as shutters. costing more than $ 45 a square foot. " It has already been a successful installation of these With this example of Puerto windows Brightshade in a Rican inventor seeking to project of social interest, develop new products, Abruña ECOHAB Green Homes is satisfied because "you have Company in the Los Teachers to push the boricua, boost in Rio Piedras. creativity and export of our products."

Valcor's is already selling and intends to export to other And it does not stop here, markets where natural lash Abruña says it is already storms from the Caribbean, working on a new invention Florida, Panama, Colombia, that ensures you have every Venezuela to Hawaii. chance of being successful also linked to housing With evident emotion, Abruña construction. But this we know explains the window managed when concrete, later. For now to do in record time since has much to celebrate with the conceived three years ago. official launch of the ecological Brightside windows.

Prototypes were made, improving the way it would be

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The Argonauta and Medusa Crystal.

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The Argonauta Medusa and Crystal are the pieces of September at the Museum of Natural History in Mexico City.

represented as realistically as possible and the technique of glass became one of the most important teaching of marine biology.

History is located in the second section of Chapultepec Park. Miguel Hidalgo, C. P. 11800.

The Argonauta and Medusa are pieces made from glass and arise from the work of a family of prestigious glassmakers originating from Czech Republic who recreated a variety of marine organisms in this material.

The cost of general The Argonaut (Argonauta admission is 23 pesos; argo) is a mollusk found in teachers and students with temperate and tropical valid ID 11 pesos; access seas worldwide and to 13 pesos camera: jellyfish (Pelagia nocticula) camera video access 27 inhabits both open areas pesos; guided tour 6 pesos. and coastal waters.

The chair service free "These two pieces are the wheels. oldest in the Museum's Older adults, people with collection and allow visitors disabilities and children to observe and learn the under 3 years have free details of shellfish and entry. jellyfish that otherwise are For more information visit difficult to appreciate," the Museum's website. claimed Tanya Müller, Secretary of the You can also contact the Environment Mexico City. phone 55 15 63 04

At the time they

The Museum of Natural

extensions. 112 and 113.

The city government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Environment invited the public to know parts of September in the lobby of the Museum of Natural History: Argonauta Crystal and Medusa.

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Glass in London.

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The glass allpervading

which blown blown glass a local artisan.

In the gallery of Marion Friedmann we saw the work of the Spanish Gala Fernández, now based in Mexico, who showed us their beautiful pieces made from items found in the street markets, particularly bird cages,

Depending on the material of the original structure, it remains in the oven or disappears.

Poetic and seductive.

Wintrebert, some lamps an unexpected lightness and surreal appearance highlighted by delicate patterns on the surface to indicate their mastery of the material.

A fantastic facility, in the In the gallery we also saw most literal sense, in that Fumi blown glass works space was an old school. signed by Jeremy

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Ripolles on luxury yacht.

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Luxurious as few, the steel and aluminum megayacht designed by Francesco Paszkowski and built by CRN, the division of the Italian Ferretti Group yachts, and sailing the waters of the Mediterranean in their sumptuous rooms harboring various artworks, including valuable pieces in glass Juan Ripoll Murano.

their signs of plastic identity.

The works performed by Ripoll Murano furnace come Berengo Studio in The works decorate the Murano (Venice), the main hall of a yacht that gallery's glass art accommodates up to 12 internationally recognized, guests and 15 crew. with which Ripoll has Six cabins, rooms, worked many years in the terraces, gym, spa, spa, design and beach club, garage or implementation of these heliport are some of the delicate yet huge pieces , comforts of Saramour 61. whose large size is a challenge of continued It is the first superyacht built by CRN offering an development. entire deck exclusively for The sizes and even the This is The sympathetic the owner's use and (64x39x10cm) and pigments with which it carefully decorated down works in glass Ripoll are Metamorphosis to the smallest detail, (71x47x11cm) blown not the usual. where the works of both Murano glass, two In fact his pieces in classical art and art is not delicate and huge pieces Murano are the most merely a decorative of colored glass with the desirable in such a element, but a shaft on usual chromatic richness selective market. rotating the inner of an artist who has made elegance. the volume and color

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Nuestro Boletín tiene su redacción en:

La Asociación de Amigos del MAVA fue constituida el 21 de junio de 2003 de confor-

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midad con la ordenación vigente.

Valderas.

La finalidad de esta Asociación es pro-

Avda. Los Castillos, s/n 28925 ALCORCÓN

mover, estimular y apoyar cuantas acciones

MADRID

culturales, en los términos más amplios, ten-

Al vidrio por la cultura

gan relación con la misión y actividad del Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón.

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Nuestros socios pueden ser honorarios, benefactores, numerarios y juveniles.

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Presidente honorario

Evangelina del Poyo

Presidente

Diego Martín García

Miguel Angel Carretero Gómez

Francisco Martín García

Vicepresidente

José María Gallardo Breña

Secretaria Rosa García Montemayor

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Javier Gómez Gómez

Pablo Bravo García 

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