Colored Glasses
Interior Designer Mary McDonald has been collecting colored glasses for years. "I always pull over to the side of the road when I go to Palm Springs to pick more up. They're not very important on their own, but in a group of all different shapes and colors they look like jewels." I was impressed when I came across this page entitled, TABLESCAPE, in the current issue of House Beautiful featuring her stunning bar. Both the table and cabinet, which McDonald uses as a bar, are antique. She had the cabinet ebonized and then painted the inside red to glam it up. I've never been one to covet colored glasses but after being inspired by her cabinet bar filled to the brim with jewel toned glassware I set my sights on starting my own collection. An estate sale I attended last weekend yielded a lovely assortment of vivid peacock blue colored glassware. And then I remembered that I had a couple of different set...