Three Transom Windows from the Robert R. Blacker House

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Three Transom Windows from the Robert R. Blacker House

Designer Greene & Greene (American, 1894 - 1922)

Manufacturer Peter Hall Manufacturing Company (American)

Manufacturer Sturdy-Lange Art Glass Studios (American)

Dateabout 1907

MediumWindows; glass

ClassificationGlass

Object number

1997.303

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Label TextThe stained glass windows of Greene and Greene’s Robert R. Blacker House in Los Angeles are considered some of the most beautiful of the Arts and Crafts period. Designed by Charles Greene, they were fabricated by Emile Lange of Sturdy-Lange Art Glass Studios. Lange, who had worked in Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Studios in New York, provided the Tiffany iridescent glass for the windows. To create the subtle variations of color throughout the design, Lange fused together up to four layers of Tiffany glass. Greene and Greene were the leading West Coast Arts and Crafts architects at the beginning of the twentieth century. They are best known for their bungalow aesthetic, which focused on providing shade and cross circulation of air in a hot climate. They were also famous for relating the design of a house to its surroundings. The Asian-influenced flowering tree design of these windows echoes the garden adjacent to the windows’ original location over the south veranda.