Originally founded in 1837 as the Mount Washington Glass company, Pairpoint is the oldest operating glass company in the United States. Over the years, Pairpoint has produced an array of luxury glassware, and historic pieces are now sold at auction houses and housed at museums (notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston).
Pairpoint has done pieces for presidential families (Kennedy and Bush), and they work with interior designers for the Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton. They produce table lamps and chandeliers for high-end homes and yachts.
Pairpoint is known for three kinds of glass lampshades, originally produced from the mid-1890s through the mid-1920s: reverse painted landscape shades (where the glass is hand painted on the inside surface so colors appear softly through the glass), blown out reverse painted shades, and ribbed reverse painted shades, mostly with floral designs and landscape scenes.
In 1910, the company began using a spherical knop (or “bubble ball”) on some of its pieces, a technique involving trapping air bubbles inside a piece of glass in a symmetrical pattern, which can be applied to ice buckets, decanters, glassware, and other pierces. This became a trademark of the company.
The company produces a range of glass pieces, including custom pendants, sconces, chandeliers and accent lighting. Pairpoint also produces barware, candlesticks, bookends, bowls and vases, as well as a line of controlled bubble ball door knobs. Pairpoint products are handmade in the US.
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