Breath.
The Amber
Pendant Series
Commissioned for a private residence in Hudson, New York. The client wanted light that felt alive — something that caught the late afternoon sun the way a gather catches the furnace. Seven pendants, each blown in a single session, each carrying the mark of a single breath.
Process documentation — Furnace Studio, Hudson NY, 2024
Installed — Private Residence, Hudson NY
"Glass holds the moment of its making. Every bubble, every fold in the wall — that's the breath that shaped it, preserved in silica forever. I'm not designing objects. I'm capturing instants."
Marcus Veil — Studio Founder, Furnace
Vessel forming — the neck opening, temperature 1,900°F
Vessel
Studies in Form
Twelve vessels for a group exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Each piece interrogates the same question from a different angle: what is the minimum intervention required to suggest interior space? The answer changes every time the gather hits the blowpipe.
Installation view — Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield CT
"When a collector commissions a piece, I ask them to come to the studio. Not to watch me perform — to understand that what they're buying is a conversation between fire, gravity, and the particular quality of light that afternoon. No two days in the hot shop are the same."
Marcus Veil — on the commissioning process
Studio floor — Furnace, Hudson NY — 4:47 PM, October
Architectural
Chandelier, SoHo
The most ambitious commission to date. Sixty-three individually blown components, each a unique cell in a larger organism. Installed in the atrium of a converted cast-iron building on Mercer Street — the piece required four days of rigging and two weeks of calibration to achieve the intended light distribution.
63 components — 14 days in the hot shop — 400 lbs of glass
Installed — Private Atrium, Mercer Street, SoHo NY — 2024
40 pages.
Every piece. Every process.
The complete Furnace case study archive — process photography, material notes, installation documentation, and first-person commentary from the studio floor. A working document for designers, curators, and collectors who want to understand the work before commissioning it.