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Grapevine glassblowing studio heats up Valentine’s Day By Marty Sabota msabota@star-telegram.com Glass artist Spencer Crouch helps Ashley Redford make a glass rose at Vetro. Juan Guajardo Star-Telegram GRAPEVINE Adam Redford is a sweet, caring spouse who wanted to find a special experience to celebrate his wife’s 29th birthday and Valentine’s Day that followed three days Read more »

Step into Vetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery and you’ll find glass blowers at work, sculpting and turning molten globs of glass with blowpipes, furnaces glowing with fire. Owned by David Gappa, a former architectural designer, Vetro (Italian for glass) churns out a variety of pieces for both private commissions and the adjacent gallery, which also Read more »

SOMA – South on Main Artist  When you shake hands with Grapevine blacksmith Will Frary, you realize just how easy your day job is. Since the early 1980’s, the blacksmith’s seasoned hands have been hard at work, pounding away at whatever piece of wrought iron, steel, railroad spike or horseshoe is unfortunate enough to find Read more »

By Mary Rogers Photos by Ron T. Ennis The house, substantial and impressive, sits in a trendy enclave of Southlake that not so long ago was tree-dotted meadow land. It’s surrounded by equally remarkable homes. It is a big house, boasting five bedrooms, eight baths, five fireplaces, a gourmet kitchen inside and another outside, adjacent Read more »

David Gappa likes it hot. He’s the gifted artist who owns Vetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery in Grapevine, and on a recent Saturday, he wore a T-shirt covered by a long-sleeved flannel shirt. “It’s cold,” he exclaimed when I commented on his warm attire. OK, it was 55 degrees outside, and to be fair, he Read more »

Like the glass he molds, award-winning glassblowing artist David Gappa forges his talents to give them back to God. When David Gappa took a glassblowing class at the University of Texas at Arlington 16 years ago, he didn’t imagine it would someday become his career. He was, after all, studying for his master’s in architecture. Read more »