Kitengela Glass - Studio
Off-grid glass studio and sculpture garden of mud-walled huts, built by hand from recycled bottles, rock, and clay.
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This guide to the Kitengela Glass studio near Nairobi explains why there is no gas line or plug behind its shelves of goblets and chandeliers: the heat comes from a beehive-shaped furnace burning used engine oil, built by hand by Anselm Croze after he trained as a glassblower in Holland. It traces the studio back to his mother, Nani Croze, who started the whole place in 1979 on gorge-side land bought from a Maasai family, building her first studio from chicken wire, rock and mud. Local masons spent roughly three to four years of trial and failure getting the furnace right.
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