Puget Sound Business Journal features Glassworks, Inc.
"Tish Oye, owner of Glassworks Inc., in Seattle, with her husband (and Lead Designer,) Steve Shahbaghlian, in one of their showrooms with examples of the glass pieces they make." - PSBJ
In the Friday, April 15, 2011 issue of Puget Sound Business Journal, Staff Writer Steve Wilhelm featured the folks behind Glassworks Inc. in the Growing Your Business section of the paper.
Wilhelm’s article includes a brief examination of the 40+ year history of the company, Glassworks’s place in the Seattle Art Glass movement, as well as the business strategies employed to counter the recent slump in new construction.
Wilhelm writes:
Here’s the yin and yang that makes Glassworks Inc. work.
Steve Shahbaghlian founded Glassworks in 1968, but loved the art of it much more than the business side.
The Seattle company makes custom architectural glass installations for high-end homes and commercial settings. For decades, it has kept on remaking itself as Shahbaghlian has pushed the boundaries of what the material can do.
Tish Oye, a former social worker, had returned to school for a second career and was earning an MBA at California State University, San Bernardino, in 1983. That’s when she met Shahbaghlian through friends while skiing in Utah…
