Pink Chalet Glass Art Ashtray Folded Glass Vintage Art Sculpture MCM Canada

Pink Chalet Glass Art Ashtray Folded Glass Vintage Art Sculpture MCM Centre Piece Canada Canadian Pink Chalet Glass Art Ashtray Folded Glass Vintage Art Sculpture MCM Centre Piece Canada Canadian Stunning piece of Art to display as a focal centre piece on your entryway table, coffee table or shelf. Unique colour, pink with clear folds Pulled arms folded- Clear cloverleaf shaped base. Absolutely stunning. Every collector of these pieces would need to add this to their collection. I believe this is an Ashtray. Hard to believe such a beautiful piece would be used for that. It is unmarked on the bottom. Pink Chalet was made for sale by Birks stores of Canada. “Many of these pieces were made by Chalet Artistic Glass in Cornwall, Ontario, in business from 1962 to 1975. The company actually began in Montreal as Les Industries de Verre et Miroirs in 1958, changing its name to Murano Glass in 1960. Although many small pieces of Chalet glass were blown into moulds, the large heavy pieces were blown and worked by hand. Without the use of moulds, no two examples were perfectly identical. The molten glass was pushed and pulled using a variety of simple tools to create the final shape. The curves vary from gentle to dramatic, and complemented the living and dining room decor of the period. The final free-form result was so fluid that it could only be described as a flight of the imagination.“ “But not all Chalet pieces are marked. Many only had stickers that rarely survive today.”