Elongated Rhombus Gilson Opal Glass Earrings

$375.00 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Ethereal, synthetic opals suspended in glass. Brooklyn-based glass sculptor Colin Keane Lynch founded KEANE in 2017, under a mission of spreading the beauty of handmade glasswork in a wearable form. Colin studied traditional glass techniques in Venice before continuing his studies at the Corning Museum of Glass, and then finally at RISD. A labor of love, KEANE’s wearable treasures are made of borosilicate glass on a bench torch using a technique called lampworking. Glass rods and tubes are manipulated into…