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‘Smash hit’ – How to Spend it – Financial Times

Conceptual art meets avant-garde design in grand-scale cracked-glass pieces Smashing a sheet of industrial glass with a hammer is, most often, an act of destruction. For Yorgos Papadopoulos, however, it’s a way of creating beautiful, bespoke artworks and striking architectural features. Gazing at them is like looking at broken ice, flowing water or the fleeting glimpse ...

Cypriot & Turkish artists use glass to tell a story

Renowned glass artists, Cypriot-born, Yorgos Papadopoulos, and Turkish native, Yasemin Aslan Bakiri use glass to tell a story of fraternity, protection and reconciliation in a joint exhibition taking place in Istanbul between May 12 to July 31. Titled ‘Transparency’, the two artists will portray their similarities in habits, life experiences, philosophies, values and ideas through glass ...

Craft Magazine Feature

MADONNA IN THE PINKS AND GOLD AND PURPLE, AND NEON GREEN… GLASS ARTIST GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS’S LATEST PROJECT HAS BEEN SIX YEARS IN THE MAKING, AND MARKS A TURNING POINT IN HIS ECLECTIC CAREER, SAYS PAMELA BUXTON FOR A BUDDHIST, George Papadopoulos has been spending an awful lot of time with the Madonna. Step inside the architectural glass ...

Architecture Week Feature

Cyprus-born, London-based Yorgos Papadopoulos has developed an edgy art form that is attracting international attention. His work exploits the crystalline forms of broken glass and mixes in bold combinations of colour to create provocative art panels.Papadopoulos treats his medium with what he calls a “healthy disrespect.” His technique involves texturing, breaking, colouring, then re-laminating sheets ...

Real People Meet Real Design – New York Times

The Ninth Grader Leah Lewy peers through the smashed-glass decorative panels made by Yorgos Papadopoulos. MARK CRISPIN MILLER squinted into the hanging, eyeball-high tunnel made by the decorative smashed-glass panels of Yorgos Papadapoulos, a Greek Cypriot living in London and showing at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair last Saturday, and worried aloud. “I think these defy ...

Palm Springs modernism is very much at home in Hertfordshire

Bethan Ryder of The Guardian finds that Palm Springs modernism is very much at home in Hertforshire. One striking piece already in place is the stained glass in the two-storey window at the end of the corridor, next to the master bedroom. It was created by Yorgos Papadopoulos, of Yorgos Studio. Applying his technique of sandblasting ...