Blenko

Blenko: Mid-Century Modern Glass from America

Named after its founder, Englishman William Blenko, Blenko Glass Company, Inc. began producing stained glass in America in the late nineteenth century. It remains one of the few glass factories in the United States still making modern hand blown production glass.

Recently, collectors have been scooping up Blenko designs from the company’s middle years of production, the 1950s and 1960s. Three outstanding designers were responsibl…