Southern Vermont Art and Craft Festival

Szal Design will be participating in the Southern Vermont Art and Craft festival, in Manchester, Vermont, August 3-5 at Riley Rink Field, 410 Hunter Park Road in Manchester. Friday and Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10-4. Hope to see you there!


For more info, visit the show site here.

Szal Design Commission one of Trinity College's Best Kept Secrets!

One of Szal Design's art glass pieces has been featured by Bantam blogger Kathryn Van Sickle '12, as one of Trinity's best kept secrets! Read the blog post here.

Tim Szal '06 designed and built four art glass panels for the Chapel's rehearsal room during the spring semester of 2005. Working with the chaplain at the time, the Rev. Daniel R. Heischman, John Rose, College Organist and director of Chapel Music, and Patricia Tillman, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Tim was able to create an Independent Study in the Studio Arts to receive credit for the project during his junior year at Trinity.

Using traditional leaded glass techniques and hand-made mouth-blown glass from Lamberts in Germany, Tim's piece "Out of the Depths" conjures images of rising up from darkness and into the light. This image is quite appropriate given the location of the windows at the base of the East end of the chapel, below the High Alter and rising up out of the hillside on Trinity's Lower Long Walk.

Art Glass

Szal Design Art Glass currently encompasses two areas. The first is the design and creation of custom leaded glass panels— windows, skylights, interior partitions, and other types of panels. I started working in leaded glass in high school, and was able to pursue it during college and after. I use only the finest materials when creating my art glass, including a commitment to using only mouth-blown glass. While I have primarily made abstract panels, I am happy to work with my clients to create the perfect art glass panel for their needs.

The second area that Szal Design's Art Glass encompasses is that of art glass luminaires. The current series of lamps is named Prana, and comes in 13 inch, 24 inch, and 51 inch heights. The initial concept for this lamp was to create a contemporary art glass lamp that used an entire sheet of mouth-blown glass. This design became the 24 inch lamp. The 13 inch lamps each use half a sheet of glass, and the floor lamp uses two sheets of glass. The lamps feature a square column of mouth-blown glass with an exposed upper lip of glass on a solid wood base. The exposed glass lip is the end result of the making of the sheet of glass, and is quite smooth. Internal cross-bracing maintains structural rigidity of the lamps. The lamps are available in a variety of different glass colors and base woods, and can be seen in great detail on my website and at my Etsy shop.