Friday Five with Alison Berger
Los Angeles-based Alison Berger is an artist that brings an extensive design and architectural background to her visionary lighting fixtures, objects, furnishings, sculptures, and commission projects through a perfect balance of glass and light. Using traditional glass blowing methods, her timeless works pay homage to scaled-back historic forms that seamlessly bring an old world feel to modern design. The Dallas born Berger stumbled upon glassblowing as a child, leading her to earn a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design before studying architecture at Columbia University. After several years working as an architect at Bausman-Gill and Associates, she completed successful collaborations with Warner Bros. Records and Frank O. Gehry and Associates, which led to her return to glass design full time in 1995 though an apprenticeship with Dale Chihuly. Her ethereal glass objects have landed in films and music videos, including Practical Magic, Tank Girl, and Madonna’s Bedtime Stories, and she was personally commissioned by Comme des Garçons’ founder Rei Kawakubo to design an installation for the Tokyo showroom that included an architectural landscape that showcased her glass objects. Her work has been broadly exhibited and published globally and is available throughout the U.S. via Holly Hunt showrooms and L.A.-based Plug Lighting, along with various galleries and showrooms around the world. October 2016 saw the release of her Rizzoli-published book, entitled Al...
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