You can now also find us on the first Sunday of the month at the Heritage Craft Fair in St Ives.
RSG has just moved from Unit 18, 51 Leighton Place Hornsby.
Consultation is now by appointment only so please call or email us with your enquiry.
We may also be appearing at selected markets in the near future so please keep your eye out for details.
$1200 or reasonable offer. Ex display. Solid maple external door 820mm x 2040mm.
RRP $1850 unpainted.
We will have the studio open to the public
10-6pm Friday 16th December
10-2pm Saturday 17th December
We are happy to see people by appointment throughout the week until 23rd December.
Merry Christmas
It’s official: the studio at Leighton Place will be closed after 4th February 2012. After which time we will no longer have a showroom open to the public.
The good news is everything’s on sale (because the less there is to move the better!)
All DISPLAY DOORS & JOINERY are up for grabs on very much a first in best dressed basis.
Any JEWELLERY that is left has all got to be cleared. Items start as low as $2 - (RRP $80!).
Plenty of MATERIALS FOR HOBBIESTS with many glasses available below wholesale price plus tools and more.
RECONDITIONED stained glass and leadlight panels being sold for the first time ever.
No reasonable offers will be refused so give us a call & get yourself down to the studio between now and the 22nd December.
“…in 1878, when in the course of a libel suit he had brought against a critic, the painter James McNeill Whistler was challenged to justify the high price of his work. When asked by opposing counsel whether he really charged purchasers of his paintings the large sum of 200 guineas for the labor of just two days, Whistler replied, “No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.” (Whistler 1922, p. 5).
- David W. Galenson (2010) Understanding Creativity, Journal of Applied Economics, Vol XIII, No. 2, 351-362.
Stained Glass or leadlights are not charged in same manner as “art”. Nor are most artworks priced such as Whistler’s. In fact the hourly rate of artist’s and artisan’s is generally very poor. Stained Glass is priced either by the square meter or by the piece. Piece rates are difficult to manage in terms of quotation as they require design to be complete before a final price can be established and of course designing is a considerable component of the work.
Stained Glass and leadlight is a labour intensive craft with very little of the process having changed in a thousand years. There simply is no machine that can produce stained glass.
To put this craft along side it’s modern (and arguably less skilled) counter parts - it is not unusual to pay over $200 per hour to have a glazier complete a job. Anyone who has hired any trade will be aware of these sorts of rates, which for the record are not unjustified in the costs of running modern businesses. Many stained glass studio’s are charging less then $40 an hour for their toils. Simply market driven I’m affraid and eventually few studio’s will remain and even fewer professional artisan’s. Less business costs many studio’s in fact subsidise their work rather than take a wage.
Renaissance Stained Glass provides stained glass and leadlight expertise and services to Express Glass as well as many architects, interior designers, building companies and specialist home design services across Sydney.
Sean Hardingham’s (RSG Creative Director) work in the UK:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.414704866610.200652.48925251610&l=d8875b97aaAs we no longer have the online shopping facility and the jewellery has not as yet been added to the gallery I thought I’d post this link to our FB photo album. There are lots of pic’s and posts on FB which you can hook up to if you’re a FB user. Either follow this link or next time you’re on FB try typing “Renaissance Stained Glass” into your search. Once you’re there you can “like” the page and you’ll see our FB updates in your news feed. Don’t panic, we don’t post 10 a day as recommended by all good marketers!
Despite best intentions time has yet again gotten away from us. The studio has been busy with Hunter Baillie restorations whilst keeping up the usual flow of domestic repairs and restorations, a couple of new panels and a couple of large scale domestic commissions are in design. The team continues to be busy outside of the studio as well all working hard at our studies. Sean is roughly half way through a conservation management plan project which I’m sure he’ll blog about when he has two seconds to spare. Krista and Dan continue their work at the Julian Ashton Art School. As for your humble author and GM here at RSG, my academic work is actually in the field of psychology and this year I’m heavily entrenched in independent research. So as you can see there’s quite a bit going on.
First term classes have reached their conclusion with students completing both leadlight and copperfoil projects. The design course was a rather intimate affair. A long term client who has been buying hobby supplies and getting pointers from Sean for around the last 7 years came along and learnt some of the basics that had been overlooked in his past learning which will significantly impact on his future projects. Just thought to ask him to write a few words for those of you who might be interested.
The design course was developed in response to the large number of hobbyists we meet looking for supplies from the studio with a range of design techniques that we felt could benefit from a little professional tuition. Sean remains a rather rare commodity in this country in that he is actually professionally trained and qualified. For the most part tuition is past from one hobbyist to another and many fundamental skills of the craft, including design, have been all but lost. This continues to be a major issue within industry also though that is a much larger blog post.Suffice to say that training and licensing is a major issue under debate nationally at the moment and we will give you the update when some resolutions start to emerge.
So that’s what we’ve been up to. More on the world of stained glass and RSG shortly.
This year the Hunter Baillie restorations begin with the hall. (stained glass restorations anyway)
We’re very pleased that a benefactor has come forward to repair the windows in the creche and we have met the difference. The team are onsite getting that underway as I write.
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