REAL ESTATE Friday, September 29, 2006 Home Front DISCOUNT DESIGNER GOODIES
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PALO ALTO WEEKLY Also onlineHOUSE at www.PaloAltoOnline.com GUIDE OPEN INSIDE: ■ RentWatch Column, page 5 ■ Complete Open House Guide, page 18 HOME ■ Classified Marketplace, page 33 & ■ Garage Sales, page 33 REAL ESTATE Friday, September 29, 2006 Home Front DISCOUNT DESIGNER GOODIES . Local interior designers are participating in the 9th Annual Arts & Olive Festival on Sunday, Oct. 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Can- ada College, Building 13, Room 17, 4200 Farm Hill Road, Red- wood City. The designers have donated leftover yardage — per- fect for pillows? — plus artwork and home accessories that will be sold at discounted prices as a fundraiser for the Cañada College Student ASID Chapter and the Dr. Genevieve Cory Scholarship Fund. Categories include leather, cottons, imported textiles (silks, etc.), sheers, pillows, accesso- ries, drapery fabric and lining, ta- ble covers, shams and decorative fabrics. The free festival features olive-curing demonstrations, kids’ activities (storytelling, puppets), as well as musical and dance performances. For information, visit www.olivefest.com. Veronica Weber PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS . Members of the De Anza Chapter, American Rhododen- dron Society will learn to create plants from cuttings at the Satur- Glass artist Dean Bensen inserts a blow pipe with a glowing blob of molten glass into the ‘glory hole,’ an oven heated to 2300 degrees. day, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. meeting, in Room 12, Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Al- tos. Unusual cuttings from mem- bers’ gardens, including Mi Amor, The Winner, Else Frye, Joy Ridge, Not exactly fruit of the vine Jim Drewry and Ruby Bowman, will be available. For information, Great Glass Pumpkin Patch offers ‘acres’ of treasures visit www.deanza-ars.com or e- mail Charlotte Pannell at thepan- [email protected]. Admission by Carol Blitzer is free. o grow a fresh pumpkin from seed takes about six months. But, BAGI, eventually working for other glass artists. Today he mostly Palo Alto glass artisans Dean Bensen and Demetra Theofanous creates vessels and redwood-tree sculptures, which he calls his “sig- ORGANIC IN WINTER . Jody T can whip out a glass pumpkin in about half an hour at the Bay nature work.” (Some are in the window at the Pacific Art League in Main, who has managed Rosa- Area Glass Institute (BAGI) studio in San Jose. Palo Alto.) lind Creasy’s test garden, will Of course, it took years of practice to get to that point. “What Dean has been searching for is something that’s a combina- (continued on page 6) The half-hour creation is one of the smaller gems among the 200 or tion of art and his personal interest — a strong environmental basis, so they’ll be bringing to the 11th annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch where his passion is,” his partner Theofanous said, noting that he was Send notices of news and at the Palo Alto Art Center next week. They’ll be joining thousands of recently juried into the Made in California exhibit at the Oakland events related to real estate, in- entries, from petite to humongous, by 30 California artists displayed Museum and that he was a guest artist at BAGI in 2004, working with terior design, home improvement on the rolling grassy knoll behind the center. a team to create a large-scale project. and gardening to Home Front, Each pumpkin in the patch is a one-of-a-kind creation, ranging As for Theofanous, “my first look at glass was in second grade Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, from the classic orange with a green stem to cobalt blue or even when I saw a movie on glass blowing. I was captivated by it.” Palo Alto, CA 94302, or e-mail brown and green, with a metallic gold stem. They’ll sell for about $50 As a child, however, her creativity was channeled into music (violin [email protected]. Dead- to well into the hundreds, for those coveted by glass collectors. The and piano) and dance. In college she studied finance and accounting, line is Thursday at 5 p.m. annual glass pumpkin sale is a fundraiser for children’s art-education thinking of her artistic side as “outside enrichment.” programs at the Palo Alto Art Center, as well as BAGI, which offers After working as a tax consultant and experiencing some health classes and workshops in a public-access, glass-working facility. problems, she took some time to think about what she really wanted Midpeninsula Home & Real Bensen first studied glass art as an undergraduate in the mid-1980s to do. “I realized I wanted to be doing something a lot more creative, Estate is published every Friday at the University of Idaho, where he had switched from thinking about but I had physical limitations. I couldn’t do glass blowing,” she said. by the Palo Alto Weekly and biology and forestry to art. But after graduation he spent more time But she could do a lot of the tasks associated with it — including the Almanac, P.O. Box 1610, on ski racing, using his glass-blowing skills to support his ski passion. working with the layering of color. Palo Alto, CA 94302, 326-8210. An injury took him out of glass blowing for six years, but he never Much of her personal work is making glass beads and jewelry and It circulates by mail to 57,000 lost his interest. small-scale sculpture, such as perfume bottles. She works for Kath- homes from Woodside to Attending an arts festival in Michigan re-sparked his passion. Soon leen Elliot, who creates botanical sculpture, which “allowed me to Los Altos, as well as through he returned to California and began taking workshops and classes at explore more sculptural ideas.” local real estate offices. (continued on page 3) ■ OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 • 1882 Austin Avenue ■ OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 • 34 Walnut Avenue ■ OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30 • 246 Oak Grove Avenue LOS ALTOS… A very elegant & rare 4BR/2.5BA colonial ATHERTON… Beautiful central Atherton home! 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