Stumble across a hand-blown glass candy dish in Italy or a basket maker in rural Ohio?
The 3, 933-room Bellagio, famous for its in-house art collection that ranges from colourful Chihuly hand-blown glass sculptures to the current Claude Monet exhibition, is putting the finishing touches on its full remodel of all rooms and suites.
The artist noted the significance of showing in New York "Precious Stonewall" (2010), a block tower of blown-glass bricks draped in beads hand-cut in India.
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The flooring is dark, the passageways plain and the lighting democratic, giving shards of earthenware as much attention as finely woven rugs from Iran, a jewel-encrusted dagger from Mughal India or 14th-century enameled blown-glass lamps from Egypt and Syria that are about as close to numinous as objects can get.
Hippies and yuppies rub shoulders during the event held on Alberta Street in Northeast Portland, and "hipsters showcase their latest patched vintage tweed jacket and creative take on facial hair to crowds that take in food truck fare, art, hand-sewn sock puppets, glass blown jars and any other obscure item your heart might ever have desired, " Moon writes.
Among the unique objects which point to the presence of Africans on the military frontier, is a 2nd Century AD blue glass mould-blown vessel in the form of an African man's head.
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Several stores were destroyed by the explosion, while the glass fronts of others were blown out or smashed.
The software interface for Glass is a type of web app called the Mirror API, and not a full-blown operating system like Android.
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Without it the windows are blown outwards - putting anyone outside, such as those standing on a platform, at risk from flying glass.
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