Konstantin Soyfer, who now lives in Tucson, Arizona, grew up in Kishinev, former USSR. There it was very common to be exposed to many forms of the so-called "people art" or folk art, with many beautiful verities of it. In Konstantin's family, art interest was always encouraged and his parents introduced him to best art collections in the country. Shortly after he moved to Tucson, he become award-winning wood carver. He still consider wood and other carve-able materials his major media, but one time he decided to combine carved wood and stained glass and that become his new passion. With help and plenty of encouragement of his new friends Alyssa and Carrie who taught how him to work with glass, he keeps working on his unusual designs always willing to bring something new in this beautiful art.
Here is a group of lamps that were created in collaboration with Alyssa. The shade is made of strings of glass that were fused together and slumped. It is free form, but associates with sea somehow. Bases were made out of different wood each piece was selected individually for each shade. Some of them just continue the flow of the shade, some were carved with certain design like the one with sea shells.
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