As you enter the third floor master bedroom in this house in Cambridge, Massachusetts your eyes automatically follow the elegant pitched roof to a window facing west where you see a lovely quilt of color and texture in stained glass. As you approach the window it becomes apparent the texture and shadings of color are actually images rendered in stained glass. This Family Portrait was created from photographs tracing the family from its roots in Switzerland through 2003, particularly focusing on photographs of the children from infancy through adulthood.

The images are rendered through a variety of techniques including silk screening, sandblasting and hand painting. Pieces of unpainted colored glass and glass jewels are interspersed throughout the window to give the piece a lively jewel-like appearance.

This window was featured in Custom Home Magazine, May/June 2004, Building Products Magazine, May/June 2004 issue, and Qualified Remodeler, April 2004.

Photograph by Logan Seale Photography/Boston