Philabaum Glass Gallery

Lovely place. Wonderful service. I bought several pieces overtime. Unique and eye popping things to see.
Apr 6th, 2024

An amazing collection of innovative art.
Jan 29th, 2024

Jan 27th, 2024

Dec 28th, 2023

The thing I love about this town is the variety of passions and craftsmanship you can find around every corner. Some people are into fine wood, some people carpets and some.are into glass. Fine, expensive, easily destructable glass. And since im dabbling in new fanatacisms to make myself seem cooler than everyone else at parties, I decided I would go check out Philabaum Glass Gallery. This would be my second visit. Unfortunately in 2021 I was kicked out after I hired a guy on Craigslist to film me acting like a blind guy with a walking stick for my prank youtube channel. One of the gallery employees already saw me outside talking to the cameraman and literally using my vision to navigate around crazy people on 6th avenue and called me out within 20 seconds of me waving my stick around inside. He told me to beat it and I called him a glass-hole and that was that. After that I almost got arrested for trying to prank an old folks home as the grim reaper but thats neither here nor there. Ive since given up my youtube prank channel and have been more focused on trying to become a more cultured human being and that includes frequenting art galleries and french bistros while acting as better-than-thou as much as possible. Thankfully, this go around, there wasnt the same worker there to recognize me, so I felt more at ease. Now full disclosure, I know nothing about glass except for the time the old dude with a neck tattoo and ponytail at the AZ Rennaissance Fair showed a crowd how to blow glass like its 1589. So I did a little research ahead of time and found out that this is **Arizonasonly all glass art gallery, showcasing the finest contemporary glass from over 65 nationally recognized artists** and I didnt know a single one beforehand. So I did my homework and went in wearing a peacoat and a fancy scarf and overly tight khakis with my hair combed nice and hovered immediately over with a straight face and asked if they had any stemware from Cristoff Glassweimer (a name I made up) and the gallery manager looked perplexed and said they werent familiar. I let out one of those dismissive laughs like Ha!, hand waved them away and said figures before flipping my scarf and waltzing further down the displays. They had to know they were dealing with a big shot. I saw a piece on the website that was created by a master glass artist from Murano which is a Nissan SUV and a small group of Islands in northern italy, go figure. It was a blue flame-worked glass piece entitled: **Conflitto Creature Mitologiche by Lucio Bubbacco.** I couldnt make that up if I tried. Lucio Bubbacco is already my hero. I dont know how to pronounce most of those words but either way I yelled back at the manager I would like to see the Conflitto Creature from Lucio Bubbacco and snapped my fingers. Its listing price on the website was $3200 but I was gonna try to haggle down to a nice, hot $150. The manager took me over to the Bubbacco masterpiece and I bent down and observed it for a good 2 minutes going hmmmm ahhhh and mmmhmmm until finally I stood up and said this is a forgery to which they gave me a look akin to if I just slapped their mother. No, no, no, absolutely false, sir. Lucio Bubbacco delievered this to us himse It was an imposter. Likely playing the long game. Not the first time Ive seen it. And then as I tried to cooley walk away again I stumbled and almost knocked over another piece when I caught myself. Sir! Please be careful, you almost destroyed the **Kylix Satellite Series Blown Reticello Glass Vase by Kenny Pieper. **If I was careful, I wouldnt be rich, now would I? They were speechless. I really didnt want to break anything because I, myself, would have broke and would have had to admit how broke I am. So I tried to hide my panic and beelined for the exit door while raising my hand and saying Ta-ta! and then panicked more when my truck had trouble starting. Either way, VERY impressive place with beautiful selections. Adding it to top 5 places I would blow money at if I were rich. 5 stars.
Feb 26th, 2024