Millefiori Christmas Tree by Vitrix Hot Glass Studio

approx. 5"x 2"x 2" ___   About Vitrix Hot Glass Studio Our story is about us, but it’s also about more than us. It’s about quality and collaboration. It’s about paying silent homage to a local industry and adding another layer to the story and the culture of glass found in “America’s Crystal City.” For the sake of perspective, let’s start with a little broader history. Thomas Gibbons Hawkes was born in 1846 to a family involved with the Irish glass industry. At the age of 17, Hawkes obtained a job as a draftsman for the glass cutting shop Hoare & Daily, and in 1880 he opened Thomas G. Hawkes & Company, the second glass cutting firm established in Corning. Nine years later, T.G. Hawkes won the Grand Prize for cut glassat the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. It’s probably not that surprising to find, over 130 years later, a contemporary glass studio located in the same historic building that was once home to Hawkes’ company. You’ll even find the name T.G. Hawkes & Company p