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After 100 Years, The Art of Steuben Glass Comes Crashing to an ...

Glass art manufacturer Steuben Glass Company, which has been based in Corning, N.Y., 37 miles southwest of Ithaca, since 1903, will close in November, parent company Schottenstein Stores Corp. announced Aug. 31 in a press release.

“The difficult economy, declining sales and high expenses continue to have a negative impact on the Company’s profitability. Our employees and Local 1000 worked in cooperation with the company to change the trend but the efforts at restructuring and repositioning the brand were unsuccessful,” Mark Samitt, president of Steuben, LLC, said in a statement.

When Charles and Diana married in 1981, they received over 5,000 gifts, including a $75,000 Steuben glass bowl chosen by Nancy Reagan, a modest silver picture frame from Princess Grace of Monaco and clothing stands from the King of Tonga. An American oil man gave the young couple a share in an oil well that was supposed to generate over $50,000 a month.

“The last several years we had Steuben, it was losing money,” Dunning said. He said that another motivating factor in the sale was a desire by Corning to get rid of its consumer products holdings.

“[The sale] was basically because it no longer fit into our business model. It was a consumer products type of business, and we were no longer involved with that,” Dunning said. He noted that in 1998 Corning sold its lines of CorningWare and Corelle tableware and Pyrex cookware to World Kitchen.

Corning bought back the Steuben name from Schottenstein, and the closure has no impact outside of the Steuben business.

While the closure of Steuben has little effect outside of the 60 people employed making the glass that generated a few million dollars in annual sales, it is more the loss of a cultural and artistic icon in the glassmaking world that is significant. It represents a distinct shift in values, and what people want above their fireplace. As Steuben said:

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