Mr. Schlanser has a diverse
and interesting background. His occupations have ranged from
racing motorcycles to modeling. He was raised in a community
rich in heritage and as a result has a great appreciation for
architecture and the arts.
Mr. Schlanser found his
interest in glass while working as an apprentice for the
renowned German glass artisan Paul von Domarus and later opened
his own successful stained glass studio. He has since taken the
glass medium into unexplored territories. In 1990 he presented
his first collection of kiln-fired glass; the process by which
plate glass is carefully shaped by heating it to near melting
temperature, then gravitating from its solid state to form the
shapes as seen in the Schlanser line.