Breathtaking

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• Referral from August 19, 2013
  

  Rose W. asked:

  Attention FB friends who travel - we just booked one night in Montreal and two nights in Quebec. I've never been to either city and don't speak French. Any suggestions for must-see sights, restaurants, etc? I know Suzanne Lanthier "Lawnchair" is going to recommend the poutine!! Thanks :)

  

  Don W. replied:

  Website for Chihuly exhibit: http://www.breathtaking.ca/

  

  Marybeth T. replied:

  I'm an ardent long time lover if Dale Chihuly. For something like 25+ years. Chihuly, a Washington glass blower, did one breathtaking exhibit in Venice along the canals. He shipped hundreds of pieces over. They looked like Medusa's snakes. He put posts up all along the canal, then hung each individual piece on hooks on those posts for a total of maybe 50? on each post. Long flowing, curling, undulating glass 'horns' flowing in a multitude of directions, and all hanging from a single post. Naturally there were pieces shattered on the cobbles in the process. This puts the word 'painstaking' in the garbage. It was much more. Much much more. He has suffered for his art also. As a certified artist might. He lost an eye during an accident when an explosion killed his vision permanently. He now has apprentices, paid and unpaid - he is the brass ring of glassblowers. The Shanri-La. Only the very best can study under him. He expects the best. And it shows. Look at my photos from The Borgata in Atlantic City. I walked into the lobby and they had to come scrape my bottom jaw off the marble floor

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