Frabel Glass Art Studio

There are many great reasons to acquire a Frabel. They are beautiful, graceful, handcreated, very limited in supply and have been acquired by and for many prominent world citizens. When giving a Frabel sculpture, the message accompanying the sculpture is one of expressing Excellence through Excellence. A Frabel reminds us that we are unique and that the individual is significant and treasured.

All Frabels are created to perfection, which means that you will not find air bubbles, scratches or other imperfections in any of our sculptures. There are no “seconds” available at Frabel. Each Frabel that leaves the Frabel Studio is perfect and stands by our vow of “Excellence in Glass Art”.

Yes. One of the unique properties of Frabel sculptures is that we use specially formulated Borosilicate Glass which can be restored to perfection at a reasonable price; you will not even see that your Frabel was ever broken.

Frabels come in 3 different forms: One-of-a-kinds, Limited Editions and Studio Collection. The Studio Collection Frabels are also called Multiple Originals, which means they are all created by hand and therefore no two will ever be exactly the same. A Studio Collection sculpture is designed by master glass artist Hans Godo Frabel or any other Frabel artist and then created by one of the Frabel artists for a certain period of time. The Studio Collection sculptures are not limited by number, but are retired after a certain period of time.

Yes, every Frabel is created entirely by hand, which means that no two Studio Collection sculptures will be exactly the same.

No. We never use any molds. What makes Frabel so unique is that all sculptures are entirely free formed by hand.

Most Frabels can be shipped worldwide without any problems. Only very few Frabel sculptures are so fragile that they require hand delivery.

To clean, just use a soft cloth and a common household window spray, such as Windex. Borosilicate glass is one of the hardest glasses on earth and unlike soft and more fragile glass, such as lead crystal, it will not get damaged by using household cleaners. Use a moistened lint free soft cloth to wipe the sculpture down. Do NOT let the moisture drip into the wooden base, since this may damage the base.

Frabel glassware and stemware can be washed in hot, soapy water. When washing a Frabel in the dishwasher, make sure it is positioned securely and that it cannot move around. Do NOT wash a Frabel created from color glass in a dishwasher.

Frabel candlesticks can be safely cleaned of wax by rinsing with hot water.

To obtain the best display effect, a Frabel should be placed under halogen light, in sunlight or in another well lit place. In bright and direct sunlight, a Frabel will create a dazzling play with the sun light.

If your Frabel is not mounted on a wood or base of another material, cover storage shelf with a soft cloth, preferably felt, so that the glass surface does not get scratched. Make sure there is plenty of space between the Frabels, so that they do not touch each other, to avoid scratches. Never try to stack Frabels.

Never move the sculpture over the surface. Always lift it up and put it down carefully where you want it.

When moving, wrap Frabels carefully using plenty of tissue paper and put them in a cardboard box. Put the cardboard box, containing the Frabels, in a larger cardboard box surrounding the smaller box with Styrofoam peanuts. This is how Frabels are safely shipped all over the world.

We can create an appraisal of your Frabel. The actual sculpture will be needed at the Frabel Studio to be examined. Please contact us for more information.

A Frabel sculpture can be recognized by the embossed FS mark, which is the sign of the Frabel Studio. One-of-a-kind Frabels are embossed with the GF mark, which stands for the founder of the Frabel Studio, master glass artist Hans Godo Frabel. On the peg of each Frabel, you can find the Frabel name and the mark of the artist who executed the sculpture.

Frabels are created out of specially formulated borosilicate glass, which is one of the hardest glasses in the world. It can withstand wide temperature ranges and most chemicals. Besides being crystal clear, borosilicate glass also has the advantage that, in most cases, it can be flawlessly restored if broken.

The frosted or opaque look is an interesting illusion. The technique that the Frabel Studio utilizes to give the glass sculpture or parts of the sculpture an opaque or frosted look is by sandblasting the glass with small particles of aluminum. These particles make little indentation in the glass, which diffuses the light in different spectrums, which the human eye sees as white. Optical equipment will look straight through the frosted glass as if it were clear.

We often get requests to create a one-of-a-kind or a studio sculpture, exclusive to one of our clients. We have created commission sculptures for $500 and sculptures for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Hans Godo Frabel and the artists of the Frabel Studio have created a large number of glass sculptures that are in the permanent collection of many museums worldwide and Frabel sculptures have been on exhibition in even more museums. Below you will find a selection of these museums.

• Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
• Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
• Bruce Museum, NY
• Carter Center, Atlanta GA
• The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
• Charles Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
• City Museum, St. Louis, MO
• Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
• Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
• Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
• George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
• Glas Museum, Wertheim, Germany
• Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
• Katonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, NY
• King Center, Atlanta, GA
• Louisiana Art and Science Museum Baton Rouge, LA
• Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum of Art, Wausau, WI
• M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
• Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
• Museum of Glass: An International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA
• National Building Museum, Washington DC
• National Collection of fine Arts, Washington DC
• National Museum of Patriotism, Atlanta GA
• Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI
• Palm Springs Art Museum, CA
• Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, PA
• Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS
• San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, CA
• Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
• Springfield Museum of Art
• Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Dresden, Germany
• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
• Valencia Museum of Arts and Science, Valencia, Spain
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Glass is created of molecules that are in no particular order, whereas true crystal is created of molecules in a geometrically organized structure. Glass that is called crystal, such as Swarovski, Baccarat and Waterford, is really not crystal, but Lead-Oxide Glass. Lead-Oxide is added to their glass to create a clear glass, which they then refer to as crystal. The word crystal is derived from the Italian word “cristallo”, which means “clear glass”. So the word crystal may be used for any glass that is very clear, whether it is lead crystal glass or borosilicate crystal glass.

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Frabel Studio

• 689 Antone Street NW Atlanta, GA 30318 Phone: 404-351-9794
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