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King Arthur’s Shield

david.ricardo — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:33:38 +0000

Our CEO named this one, and says to remember this medieval saw: “Once a knight, always a knight, and once a knight is enough.”

Adoorable

david.ricardo — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:30:03 +0000

Not an original design, but taken from an upscale but demolished house of about 1905. Available as single or duplicate panels, and also in 24″ x 80″ doors made for this purpose. Entirely set in zinc to withstand wind and door slamming.

Starburst

david.ricardo — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:22:44 +0000

Starburst will calm your thirst if you’re at the saloon and out all night. When the star is on the right you’re heading west.

aMAIZing

david.ricardo — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:28:31 +0000

This corny maize design is based on a pre-Columbian south central Indian design from one of Jorge Enciso’s famous books, Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico (1947). Multiple copies were produced at the behest of a well-known panaderia.

Bowditch Revisited

david.ricardo — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:28:25 +0000

Designed to complement the arch topped Bowditch window from our gallery. Eight vertical pillars under 8 sun rays, with identical blue glass. The bottom photo shows both together, though the price shown does not include the arch topped component. The center came is zinc, to resist wind.

Sun God Zia

david.ricardo — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:48:55 +0000

The Sun God Zia supports ecological regeneration — he has risen for thousands of years over the Great Divide in New Mexico. He appears as he rises to lay the mountains low, while the town gets high. The up triangles are male, the down triangles female. The combination is beyond duality! Our Pueblo forebears say “Seeya at the Zia!” ‘Ta huego.

阳神基亚
窗户图案是太阳神基亚(Zia)，居住在美国西南部的普韦布洛印第安人的一支信奉此神灵。
太阳神基亚抚育万物成长，在新墨西哥州，它照耀着雄伟的大陆分水岭已经有数千年了经千年。它冉冉升起时，所有高山向它敬拜，人们沐浴它的光芒走上街头，开始新的希望旅程。图案中向上的三角形是男性，向下的三角形是女性，阴阳组合超越彼此,寓意创造和活力。
普韦布洛印第安人的祖先们说“到Zia去”，今天的人们也这样说，不过他们的意思可能是到新墨西哥首府圣达菲城的Zia饭店去。透过这扇窗,你可以想象辽阔的美国新墨西哥州的独特文明。

Bowditch

david.ricardo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:57:03 +0000

In an elegant 1900 brown-shingle edifice, just off Bowditch St., down a narrow passageway where no one can see it from outside, is a round-top window whose design we built upon with texture, swirls, and color. Old Nat Bowditch (1773-1838), we hope, is pleased with our stuff. After all, he twiddled Moore’s Practical Navigator. (What goes around…)

Comes set in a new standard dimensional round-top sash: 1.5″ thick (3.3 cm), with bevelled bottom suitable for matching standard window sill. With or without mahogany stain.

Also available without wood sash.

The Plains

david.ricardo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:59:22 +0000

Ancient design based on sophisticated beadwork on hide, in the plains Indian tradition. Too bad our Indian forebears never had stained glass to work with.

Click on the image to the right to get a closer look.

El Portal

david.ricardo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:13:15 +0000

Just 30 years after the California gold rush, visitors from Queen Victoria’s England got their socks blown off by San Francisco’s “painted lady” houses. How shocked Queen Vicky must have been to hear what the Friscaderos had done to her serious, grey English architecture! This extraordinary window design is adapted from a 1880 carved wooden door panel from a Bay Area Victorian home. The drop-in size is 21.5 in. x 27.5 in., and the price is ~~$615~~ $400. Add $150 and an extra week for delivery if you want it triple-glazed.

Sixteen-Seventy

david.ricardo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:22:27 +0000

How astonished XVII Century glass workers would have been, no matter how expert, if glass with the extraordinary colors and textures used here were suddenly to appear on their workbenches! Our basic design is in the past; the colors and textures are right here and now, and would look impresive even in the window of a modern bank (the “B” word). This panel is 20.5 in (52 cm) x 34 in. (86.4 cm), and costs ~~$435~~ $283.