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1979 Charles Lotton Multi-Flora cobalt blue vase 7" tall x 5" wide with no<br>cracks, chips, restorations, or other issues. tw108<br><br>Charles Lotton was born in 1935 in a little Southern Illinois town called<br>Elizabethtown. Charles grew up in a one-room log cabin. He recalls his mom<br>washing clothes down in Peter's Creek to make ends meet.<br><br>After high school, he joined the Air Force and worked as a trouble shooter for<br>ing & navigational equipment.<br><br>Later, Charles married his wife Mary and began a family of four children--3 boys<br>and a girl.<br><br>In 1961, they began a successful hair salon which started his artistic<br>endeavors.<br><br>In May of 1970, Charles went to The Art Institute and spent the day there to<br>watch glass blowing. He came home that day and told his wife that he was going<br>to be a glass blower and started building a furnace in the back yard.<br><br>In November of 1970, Charles began his delve into the world of art glass.<br><br>By January of 1972, Charles met up with the Tiffany expert Lillian Nassau. She<br>had insight that Charles would become great one day. Lillian bought all of<br>Charles' glass for the first five years which enabled him to transition from his<br>hair salon into the world of art glass. Little did anyone else realize fifty<br>years later Charles would still be creating beautiful, one of a kind works of<br>glass art along with his children.<br><br>Throughout the years, Charles' glass continued to evolve from simple<br>paperweights to Vases, Bowls, Flower Forms, Persian Water Sprinklers, Pendant<br>Lighting, Lamps, and Chandeliers. His designs also evolved from a molten blob<br>made from melted pop bottles in his backyard into the most beautiful creations<br>in the world today. Charles was completely self-taught, down to his own formulas<br>that create the color of his glass.<br><br>Charles had a strong determination to succeed yet had one of the most humble<br>natures of anyone that you would ever meet. He was a true man of God. Charles<br>attributed his success with his strong faith. He always prayed that the Lord<br>would continue to bless him and his family with making beautiful glass each day.<br><br>Today, Charles is world-renowned for the most beautiful designs in art, like the<br>'Multi Flora' and 'Cypriot' styles. These trademark designs have put him into<br>hundreds of major museums and private collections.
