Chihuly Garden and Glass
Glass and steel conservatory filled with monumental blown-glass sculptures beside a garden.
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This guide to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle opens with artist Dale Chihuly standing back from a hot glass shop, unable to touch the molten material himself. It traces the 1970s car crash in England that cost him sight in one eye, and the bodysurfing injury that followed, which together made solo glassblowing too dangerous for his own hands. Instead he gathered gaffers and assistants around him, Renaissance workshop style, describing shapes with his own hands while other people's lungs and lips brought them to life.
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