AD Pro - Stacie Stukin Stained Glass Is Having a Renaissance—and This California Studio Is Fueling It Whether you call it art glass, leaded glass, stained glass, or in the parlance of Frank Lloyd Wright, “light screens”—we’ve been noticing designers are embracing translucent wonder a little more as of...
Financial Times - Anne Wallentine The crafted home: stained glass scions creating California dreamscapes Artist James Jean’s “Pagoda” is an epic vision of fused glass panels that, when complete, should be like entering a multi-faceted, almost psychedelic gemstone. The intricate craft is the work of LA-ba...
SFGate - Paula Mejía The nation’s most prolific stained glass operation is a small Calif. family studio Sometime in the early 1900s, William Lees Judson, the Los Angeles-based business impresario and painter, received what might be the most impressive resume of all time from a hopeful artist. In a bid t...
Los Angeles Times - Teena Apeles Look up: The 32 most spectacular ceilings in Los Angeles As a child, I’d often visit the Griffith Observatory, where my parents took me and my sisters to marvel at the views of the city and see the stars at night through the famous public telescopes. But wh...
Spectrum News / L.A. Times Today - Andy Schlachtenhaufen Judson Studios is moving stained glass-making into the future Tucked away in a rambling, two story, shingle and stone structure in highland park lies the 125-year-old Judson Studios, the oldest family-owned and family-run stained-glass studio in America. Five ge...
Hyperallergic - Matt Stromberg The Story Behind One of the Oldest Art Glass Studios in the US LOS ANGELES — Judson Studios, founded 124 years ago, is the oldest family-run art glass studio in the country. It began working with stained glass, a medium whose technique has remained essentially un...
Smithsonian Magazine - Jennifer Nalewicki Celebrating America’s Oldest Family-Run Stained Glass Studio For more than a century, Judson Studios in Los Angeles has been creating striking artworks made of stained glass. Founded in 1897, the business, which holds the title of the oldest family-run stained ...
The New York Times - Adam Popescu Stained Glass That Breaks All the Rules LOS ANGELES — In 1893, an itinerant plein-air English painter came to the West Coast to die. At 51, William Lees Judson could look back on a life full of adventure: trans-Atlantic crossings, farming O...
Marketplace - Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar How a stained glass business is holding up in a shaky economy Keeping a family business going from one generation to the next isn’t easy. Just 10% of family businesses are passed from the second generation to the third. So it’s no mean feat that Judson Studios, ...
Architectural Digest - Nereya Otieno Inside the Renaissance and Future of Stained Glass When Judson Studios created the world’s first—and still only—fusion glass studio, it was kind of a lark. This detail becomes somewhat overshadowed by the striking images and rich history in the new bo...
CBS News Breaking the boundaries of stained glass The artists at Judson Studios are showing their true colors -- reshaping their ancient craft and designing works for religious and non-religious uses alike, as Anna Werner discovered: If you're coming...