Keep the five year olds away from the Chihuly.

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If someone can embed the photos, please do.

Chihuly sculpture brightens Biltmore estate.


Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) — Standing on tall ladders, two workers place pieces of brightly colored glass onto a tree-like structure in the middle of a manicured garden at Biltmore.

As visitors to the Asheville, North Carolina, estate gather to watch their progress, renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly's team takes the better part of a day to install "Electric Yellow and Deep Coral Tower" and "Paintbrush Tower" in the estate's Walled Garden.
"Are all the pieces numbered?" asks one person after another, looking up at installation head Rick Holland and other Chihuly installers during the two-week installation process in May.

No, amazingly, they are not.

"Chihuly at Biltmore" is Chihuly's first major exhibition in North Carolina of his 50-year career. It's also the first time that the descendants of George Vanderbilt, who still own the 250-room home and estate through The Biltmore Company, have hosted an outdoor art exhibition in the gardens.

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1. Here's one image.

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2. Thank you.

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7. My pleasure.

I went to the Chihuly museum in Seattle, and his work is remarkable. Also on display was Dale Chihuly's collection of Native American blankets and weavings.

My daughter (who lived for a time in Seattle) took me on the tour. She had a friend who worked in the gift shop/gallery at the museum. This young woman was a recent Art History graduate, and it was her job to gingerly dust the pieces for sale. She was ready to jump out of her skin every time it looked like someone might touch something.

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3. Here's another.

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4. And another.

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5. And another with the artist.

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6. Before he became famous ...

he taught glass at the art school I went to.

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8. RISD?

I think he was the professor who actually "invented" the major in glass.

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10. I don't know about that.

Glass was extremely popular under him, and the classes were relatively hard to get into. Glass furnaces operate 24 hours a day, and kids would be blowing glass in the middle of the night.

It was a time. My former classmates including several future Talking Heads, and Gus Van Sant, film director.

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12. That sounds exactly like what art school should be!

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9. Chihuly is amazing. nt

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11. There was an installation of glass "rememberance poppies"

at the Tower of London in 2014 to commemorate the anniversary of WWI.

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13. Yes, please.

I love his works. At most of his installations, they're usually placed where 5-year-olds can't reach them But, at that age, they tend to find a way. LOL!