Our History
Explore the full time-line of Stuart Wiltshire Glass.
From Freeform Glass through to modern day Stuart Wiltshire Glass, watch our entire story unfold below. Scroll down.
Stuart Wiltshire Glass began back in 2010 under a slightly different name. Back then we were called Freeform Glass.
On 26th November 2010 we signed the lease and spent the next 5 months building the studio and more importantly building the furnace.
In April 2011 we opened the studio to the public after 6 months of hard work putting together the studio.
Stuart began doing hand-casts for the local community whilst also doing glassblowing demonstrations to the public.
In 2012, we did our first glassblowing lesson/experience with Steve Mitchell.
In the years to follow we would become infamous for our glassblowing experiences, with us now having completed well over a 1000 lessons since 2012.
2012 continued being the year of firsts, as following the first glassblowing lesson came the first commission piece of work.
The first commission came after meeting with Wendy Cushing - Passementerie, following which our first commission was born, creating Murano Glass Curtain Tie Backs using gold & silver leaf.
In 2013 Stuart got a commission to make 600 globes for 13 Chandeliers in 125 Wall Street London, through The Light Lab.
The chandeliers can be seen in 125 Wall Street spanning through several floors as seen in the image.
At this point in the journey we were three years in with the business on the verge of collapse. This commission gave us a life-line and a fresh start.
The fresh start began by changing our name from Freeform Glass to the now widely recognised:
2014 started nicely with a big commission for a chandelier, this time with Jones Day Law Firm London.
This time Stuart was blowing coloured tubes and engraving every major city in the world on each piece.
2015 was an amazing year with Stuart completing a lot of commissions.
One of the larger commissions was producing a wave of 600 Blue Bottles for an art display in the departure lounge of Bristol Airport.
Stuart blew every piece by hand in his Weymouth studio.
A contract in 2015 saw Stuart hand-blowing some extremely large lighting shades, at 600mm height and making 30 a week.
In Christmas 2015, Stuart was commissioned by Breguet Watches to make Christmas Baubles, infused with 24ct Gold.
in 2015 Stuart was commissioned to make all of the company awards for Dell Technologies.
2016 began with a commission for Glenfiddich Whiskey producing 100 sets of Whiskey Glasses.
These glasses were to sit on a Glass Plate which represents rippling water.
All of the glasses looked like water droplets and when they sat on the plate it was to look like a water droplet hitting the water and the waves rippling away.
