RARE WAYNE HUSTED BIOMORPHIC GLASS VASE Nr. 5422 FOR BLENKO

A rare triangular, biomorphic BLENKO glass vase Nr. 5422 designed by Wayne Husted in 1954 and produced for only two years. Tall at 12.5", its color is a beautiful pale chartreuse. BLENKO GLASS COMPANY is a family-owned business located in Milton, W. Va., that specializes in hand-blown glass. It was founded in 1921 as the Eureka Art Glass Company by Englishman William John Blenko (1854–1934). Blenko was determined to introduce Old World sheet glass production methods in the US. He immigrated to America in 1893 and eventually set up shop in Milton after several unsuccessful attempts to establish factories elsewhere. Blenko had been sold on the location by the Industrial Development Dept. of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad—as both home to a sober, conscientious workforce and a reliable source of natural gas for his kilns. He set to work building a furnace with the help of a few Milton locals, and, within less than a month, handmade glass was being manufactured. (Along with natural gas