Installing stained glass panels at the Church of the Resurrection. "Yeah, it's like the size of a basketball court," Judson said. with a Revelation in glass - a single window that measures nearly 100 feet by 40 feet. But why not add this beautiful element of color that plays with the light so well?"īut it's back at the Church of the Resurrection that David Judson really showed his devotion to his craft. "You want a separation from the street and you still want transparency, and glass can give you that. Werner said, "You get a lot more out of this than you would with, say, plain glass, traditional window?" Modernist stained glass at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. To add an up-to-date look while keeping to the hotel's gothic tone, the studio created modernist blue-and-gold panels. So, we wanted to bring different styles into the picture, and create our own mashup," he said. It's this mashup of gothic and Spanish colonial architecture. Roman Alonso, with the Los Angeles firm Commune Design, says stained glass has a bit of a bad rap: "Because people do think of Victorian, and people do think of gothic, and people do think of heavy, and they think of old."īut Alonso chose Judson Studios to help re-imagine downtown L.A.'s Ace Hotel. Correspondent Anna Werner visits with David Judson and the artisans of Judson Studios. It's not your grandfather's stained glass," he said. "That's what we're trying to move away from, is that connotation.
Which is why Judson developed "cutting-edge" looks that are bringing designers to their door, looking for pieces that are far more modern than the old Victorian-style patterns. And so, I hope that they will know us as Judson Studios, and that we'll be able to carry our own legacy."
Because I think what Tiffany did was great, but he represents something that we're not. "I don't want to be called the Tiffany of the West, no. "You don't want to be called the Tiffany of the West?"
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