Marfa Vibe: West Texas Lanscape Stained Glass Door -
The assignment: Create a West Texas Landscape with a Marfa, Texas vibe. The owner provided a "mood board" with color and design favorites. A vibrant color landscape was designed featuring mesas and the agave Americanus century plant. As this window was installed in the kitchen door of a home they later sold, the owners wanted to recreate the window for their New York apartment. Thus came the Marfa Redux window.
Marfa Vibe Redux -
The assignment: Recreate the original Marfa Vibe window in a smaller size and new color palette.
Randall accepts commissions for commercial and residential custom stained glass windows, boxes, lamps, and sculpture.
The Process:
Once the studio is contacted for a quote for a commissioned piece, Randall with make a site visit to measure the window or project and discuss the subject and layout of the stained glass design.
Next, a sketch of the project and an estimate of the project and installation is provided to the client. The estimate is determined by the size of the project, type of glass, and detail of the design.
In collaboration with the client, the sketch is refined and a full-size pattern/cartoon is created for the project. Glass is chosen for the project and the process of cutting starts.
The build of the stained glass piece usually takes 2 to 6 weeks to complete depending on the size, design complexity, glass technique used.
Installation is usually the last step of the process.
For a stained glass quote contact:
randallsoileau@gmail.com or
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Stained Glass Commissions
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The Cat and Bear. Hand Fasting Ceremony
The assignment: Design a stained glass window for a married couple in an Art Deco style. In discussions with the clients, symbolic elements connected to the couples life were revealed and incorporated into the design. The client created a "mood board" with design elements and color palette. In keeping with a whimsical style the couple is depicted as a cat and a bear in a hand fasting ceremony.
Examples of Commissions:
Memorial Box -
The assignment: Design a stained glass box in commemoration of a young woman who lost her life too soon. Details of the woman's life suggested several religious and state centered motifs would be appropriate. The top of the box is a portrait of the woman with her horse. The sides of the box contains symbols from her life.
Prochnow Vineyard Transom Window -
The assignment: Create a new 6' X 12" stained glass transom window for the new Prochnow Vineyard located in the Texas Hill Country. The new window was to replace a transom damaged in the relocation of the historic home used as the welcome center for the vineyard.
Transom Windows : Hill Country Lake Landscape and Hill Country Wildflowers -
The assignment: Create two transom windows with a Texas Hill Country theme for a new home build in Austin. With the owners it was decided to depict two scenes of the Texas Hill Country using clear colored and textured glasses.
Examples of Commissions:
Iridized Peacock Stained Glass Window -
The assignment: Create a stained glass window of a Peacock for a barn-style door. Peacock feathers are faceted and shine so iridized glass was used to emulate the feathers. The client provided a "mood board" of color and style choices to help with the design.
Art Deco Fantasy Garden
The assignment: Create a pair of stained glass windows in the Art Deco style to replace windows flanking a fireplace. During a site visit with the client the style and color palette were determined
Lake Travis Gothic Shape Window -
The assignment: Create a stained glass window for a Gothic shaped window overlooking Lake Travis in the Texas Hill Country. The clients asked for a window to reflect the view of the lake, sometimes islands, coastline cliffs, and and green hills.