Revolutionary Design Studio

In the summer of 1992 Anthony Biancaniello was introduced to the world of blown glass. He worked maintenance on the graveyard shift at the well-known Glass Eye Studios in Seattle, Washington. Famous for its ornaments, flowered paperweights, and for being the starting point for many established glass artists including the likes of Dante Marioni, the Glass Eye would be Anthony's springboard into blown glass. He eventually traded his broomstick for a gathering iron and worked on the “pad” for the next two years.

After a one year detour in Florence, Italy, Anthony returned to the Emerald City and to glass. He spent a year at Dale Chihuly’s Boathouse studio, mostly working on the "Chihuly Over Venice" chandelier project as the gaffer’s assistant. While at the Boathouse, Anthony was given an opportunity to assist the gaffers at BMI, Benjamin Moore’s glass studio in the heart of Seattle’s International District. Within a few months he was offered a position and left the Boathouse to work at BMI full time. BMI was an exclusive and private rental facility that had a rotating schedule of the nation’s top glass artists.

Anthony worked with such artists as Benjamin Moore, Dan Dailey, Dante Marioni, and Rich Royal among others. BMI was about technique, design and tradition and was where he really learned how to blow glass.

Anthony spent two and a half years at BMI before painstakingly deciding to return to his home state of Pennsylvania to begin his career as a glassmaker. While working at a few local glassblowing studios in the Philadelphia area, Anthony was designing and building equipment for his future shop. In Early 2003 he opened Revolutionary Design Studio in Chester County, Pennsylvania. After seven years of working for others, Anthony now works for himself.

Revo is a byproduct of all that Anthony’s seen and learned over those years. His glass pieces are a study of function, form and idea. Initially inspired by the basic form of utilitarian vessels, he adds other elements to create the finished product. He adds nontraditional accoutrements to traditional forms hopefully lending a more playful look to the pieces without being too organic. Anthony will incorporate geometric shapes into functional objects for a more design-based feel. Beaker-like shapes with triangular handles are a blend of form & uniformity. Polka-dotted surfaces on tall conical shapes lends a playfulness to the pieces, adding fun to function.