Deborah Ehrlich
- Established
- 1998
- Founder
- Deborah Ehrlich
- Origin
- Accord, New York
Designer Deborah Ehrlich is renowned for her exquisitely simple crystal glassware, which begins as sketches in her studio in New York’s Hudson Valley. “I didn’t really go to design school. I figured it out from the back door,” she says modestly of her training, which ranged from studying under sculptor Michael Skop in Fort Thomas, Kentucky to a stint at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen, where she was introduced to blown-glass production.
“People often say you design one shape and then you make it bigger sixteen times and then you have a collection. What I found out is that the feeling disappears,” says Ehrlich. Her perfectly proportioned designs, realized in strong, non-lead Swedish crystal by master craftsmen, are, above all, special. And, she asks, "Why shouldn’t you have special things be a part of your everyday life?"