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To the novice appraiser of glass work, Nina and Eric sell their talents short. Even the less than perfect flawed vase with an uneven lip or a dent breathes with the special beauty of the finest crystal.
Eric, a native of Chevy Chase, didn’t know the first thing about glass blowing when he enrolled at Goddard College. He came to the progressive Vermont school to study clowns and circuses, aiming for a career under the big top.
Zipping around the campus one day on the unicycle he rode to class, Eric was stopped by a stranger who wanted to learn how to ride the tricky one-wheeled machine. The would-be circus clown agreed and in return the stranger offered him instruction^ in glass blowing.
“I said no but he asked me again and again and so I finally went up to his studio,” Eric recalled. His introduction to glass blowing
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