UK STAINED GLASS NEWS in 2004
TONY BANFIELD'S PARIS STAINED GLASS
TONY BANFIELD'S FLORIDA STAINED GLASS
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features pictures of stained glass found Tony Banfield while in Paris.
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Tony Banfield, on holiday (again!), writes to say "In late May
2004, we got 2 "free" Airmiles round-trips to Paris....we flew
in with Air France to Terminal (sic) 2F, part of which collapsed 19 hours
later, killing 5 other unluckier tourists.....
The city doesn't have (probably never DID) a great deal of SG in situ
in houses, bars, restaurants etc, so , apart from churches, most of the
glass we saw was from our various trips around the many great museums
and galleries in what's still my favourite European city. (Click
here and follow Paris May 2004 to see
our photos).
Paris is STILL an amazingly inexpensive "art-lovers-holiday"......"Carte
de Musee" gives free entry to all the major galleries and museums
for only £24 for 3 days, the "Carte Orange" costs a stunningly
cheap 14.50 Euros ((£10) for unlimited Metro/subway, bus, RER and
funicular rides for a whole WEEK!!!!.....an average clean 2-star hotel
is about £40 per ROOM (not p.p.) and the food is so plentiful that
competition keeps it quite cheap indeed."
And now, Tony Banfield in Florida, November 2003:
Doing some pre-holiday Google research about Stained Glass in Florida,
(where we just spent 2 delighful November weeks), I found a single but
stunning image of a church in the small community of Key Largo (on the
Keys) where we had a townhouse rented.
When I went to the Key Largo tourist office to ask where their superb
resource was, the woman had no idea and tried to point me towards the
local "craft shoppes" as she obviously had no idea of her community's
treasure-trove. I asked where the largest church was, and was glumly pointed
to a building about 300yards down Highway One.
This church (called St Justin Martyr at Key Largo, Florida) and the superb
Charles Morse Museum in Winter Park,near Orlando (arguably the largest
single collection of Tiffany windows in any one place anywhere)..were
the SG highlights of a great and varied holiday.
Strange that the two best churches I've seen on my recent hols (remember
the priest's one in Siena?) have both been in the rather rarer dalle-de-verre
method...maybe it's the rarity and the difficulty of doing it (compared
to leaded work) that makes it so outstanding. Pity the iconography is
so mundane (I'm not religious, so only see it as artwork).
To see all of this church: see the album "Florida" at www.picturetrail.com/tonybanfield.
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