Color, Heat, and Flame: Blow Glass and Bend Neon at This Hidden Brooklyn Studio
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Posted Sep 18, 2018 7 min read
Color, Heat, and Flame: Blow Glass and Bend Neon at This Hidden Brooklyn Studio

Photography: Christine Han The first encounter you'll have with Brooklyn Glass, the glass studio where both artisans and students come to manipulate glass in countless forms, is a wrought-iron gate, wedged between an auto body shop and a brick apartment building. It's an unassuming presence compared to the cavernous warehouse behind it that seems to take up the entire block. The building is separated into rooms built specifically for various types of glass manipulations, filled with torches for neon bending or rows of boxes filled with neon tubes labeled "salmon pink" and "street light green." The largest room is dedicated to

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