Circa is a one of a kind online gallery in Canada, that imports MID CENTURY MODERN Art Glass from around the world. All the items are hand-blown works of art from the 1940-1960, with the focus on European studios.

ITALIAN, SCANDANAVIAN, FRENCH, BELGIAN and CZECH. Circa also specializes in European Vintage ART GLASS LAMPS from studios such as SEGUSO, VAL ST.LAMBERT, CENEDESE, DAUM, VANNES, COFRAC and ORREFORS.

Owner and curator Brian Imeson has spent several years collecting, and searches the major European centres, to bring world class VINTAGE ART GLASS to Calgary and Canada.

A visit to the online gallery is an education in the MID CENTURY MODERN styling of VINTAGE ART GLASS. A visual spectacle of color, form and modernism.

The MID CENTURY MODERN style is defined by its modern forms, biomorphic shapes, sensual lines and exceptional quality in materials and workmanship. Bright, intense, vivid colors are characteristic of this period. Forged in the furnaces of post war Europe and North America, the art glass from this period ranges from sophisticated in form, to abstract in nature. Vases, vessels, lamps and figurative pieces are unique in style and distinctive in both execution and interpretation. The artists and designers from various studios in Europe all touched the genre with their style, individualism and artistic flare. Creating some of the most unique and sought after art glass pieces of this century. Highly collectible and prized the world over.