| Made in Illinois, An Artisan Gallery A Book by Lura Lynn Ryan Robert Stewart (pg. 18) |
| " The prismatic bevels of Robert Stewart's glass boxes refract a window's light and project its rainbows to a wall twenty feet away. The art of hand beveling thick plate glass was nearly lost until Stewart conceived a passion to keep it alive. He had to hunt down the machinery he needed in the basements of old glass companies in Chicago, equipment which includes a glass lathe from Germany, a grinding wheel made of a special sandstone last mined in Newcastle England in 1906, and buffing and polishing wheels of Portuguese cork and Spanish felt. Stewart's boxes have been presented as gifts from the people of Illinois to many foreign heads of state. He made the presentation box for the Bowie knife given to former President George H.W. Bush at a formal presentation at White House. |
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