Johns Manville
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Johns Manville is an American company based in Denver, Colorado, that manufactures insulation, roofing materials and engineered products. For much of the 20th century, the then-titled Johns-Manville Corporation was the global leader in the manufacture of asbestos-containing products, including asbestos pipe insulation, asbestos shingles, asbestos roofing materials and asbestos cement pipe.
An advertisement for Johns-Manville asbestos roofing used in the construction of the Detroit Public Library's main building, 1921
Dominick Labino
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Dominick Labino was an American internationally known scientist, inventor, artist and master craftsman in glass. Labino's art works in glass are in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums throughout the world. Labino held over 60 glass-oriented patents in the United States.
Labino working on a piece of glass at his workshop in October of 1971
Labino called this particular vase "Break-Through Gold Veilings" from the Emergence Series. This vase is from the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery 1980 exhibit of Dominick Labino, along with other leaders of the Studio Art Glass Movement in the U.S. This vase is in a private collection in New York City.
This is an example of Labino's signature that appears on all of his art glass pieces. The inscription in the glass reads "Labino" with the specific month and year that the piece was created by him. The vase is in a private collection in New York City.