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Project Profile:
Hand-Seeded Glass Beads Mimic Grapevines

On this very custom counter I personally hand-seeded glass beads to mimic grapevines. Over 900 fiber-optic cables underneath fed the grapevine, and the counter was connected to a special order illuminator. Every couple of minutes the light would dart up the length of the vine with over 200 hand-placed cables for a shooting star effect.

The remainder of the counter featured 700 additional cables that sparkled like a starry night. The completed project took 6 weeks to build and was one of my personal best. But the client was not satisfied. Not every client is ready to embrace the variability of an original masterpiece. Lesson learned; know your client and get your artistic license in writing.

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