Matthew Buechner designs and makes hand blown glass at Thames Glass in Newport, RI, which he founded in 1981 with his wife Adrian.

Visit Thames Glass and watch Matthew Buechner and his team of skilled glassblowers shape molten glass into hand blown glass vases, ornaments, fish, fruits, vegetables, snowmen, paperweights, perfume bottles, bowls and other original designs by Matthew Buechner.

Experience glassblowing and make your own ornament, paperweight or vase (that is yours to keep!) with lots of help from an experienced glassblower.

Matthew and his team of highly skilled glassblowers make all of our glass completely by hand, here in our studio, using traditional hand tools and techniques. Matthew designs all of the glass, trains the glassblowers (all of whom have come to us without any experience), supervises the glassmaking, and designs and makes most of the equipment. Matthew's glass is sold here at Thames Glass and in galleries, catalogs, and stores throughout the US. His glass is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York and in the Frauenau Museum of Glass in Frauenau, Germany.