Lorin Silverman

Lori Silverman (b. 1987) glass artist and designer

Born and raised in New York City, Lorin Silverman began exploring his passion for glass at the age of 12. He recounts tales of skipping high school once a week to learn glass-blowing at Brooklyn’s Urban Glass Studio, from where he continues to run his practice to this day. Lorin worked his way up in “old school” fashion at Urban Glass, sweeping floors, assisting, teaching classes, and working on his own pieces whenever possible. He assisted contemporary glass and lighting luminaries such as Jeff Zimmerman and Lindsey Adelman during his foundational years.

After graduating from LaGuardia High School, Lorin studied sculpture and glass-making at Temple University and eventually received his BFA from Alfred University in 2009. Subsequent years were spent learning, teaching, and developing at the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate NY; Brooklyn Glass; and Haystack Mountain School of Craft & Glass. He has studied under major glass masters such as Pino Singretto, who worked for many years in the famed glassmaking house of Salviati on the island of Murano, Italy. All the while Lorin continued studying many styles of historical glass-making, with an emphasis on Italian and Scandinavian design. His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions and competitions along the east coast.

In 2013 Lorin took the plunge and opened his own company, Eidos Glass. Here he was able to funnel his years of development into his own creations. Taking on the roles of designer, maker, and sales-rep, Lorin established his own line of lighting and decorative objects that soon led to orders and private commissions from big-name design firms such as Yabu Pushelberg, Jamie Drake, Amy Lau, and Rafael de Cardenas. The long-term goal was to establish a company that produced beautiful, modestly priced pieces in balance with a smaller line of more ambitious and artistic creations, where Lorin could realize his design fantasies and challenge himself technically. He gets serious when discussing his craft and can ruminate about a piece down to the most minute detail. Glass-blowing is his passion, and in hearing him speak, you quickly understand that no decision about any portion of his work is taken lightly or made off the cuff. Every element is deliberate and considered. He is at once an artist, designer, and highly skilled technician. Lorin takes inspiration from a quote by Leonardo da Vinci: “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”