Yoshinori Kondo was born in 1975 in Osaka, Japan. When he was in his mid-twenties, he worked in a retail shop that started to sell glass pendants made by apprentices of Bob Snodgrass (@bobsnodgrass1946). Inspired by these pieces, he started making soft glass beads in 2001. It wasn’t until 2002 that Kondo started working with Borosilicate glass. Less than a decade later, Yoshinori had his first group exhibition named “Glass Marble & Paperweight Arts Exhibition 2009.” In the ye

Trustglass has been blowing glass since 2012 when he found himself under the wing of Lance McRorie the founder and owner of FlameTree in Georgia. Passionate and driven, Trust ordered his own torch after about 6 months of being at FlameTree and with the help of his parents’ space, started to explore glassblowing on his own. Trust found himself settled down at Mean Screenz glass studio in 2015 after blowing glass with JDZ Glass and Liquid Fire Glass, and then in a home studio w

Hey #Depotfam! We're so glad that you've come to check out our newest feature, the Depots' blog spot!! Here, we want to dive deeper into the history of each piece that we share with the community. For us art is something that everyone should be able to enjoy and learn about. Our mission here at The Depot is just that, to educate, inspire, and change the way the world looks at functional glass. We know that not everybody will own a thousands of dollars piece of artwork in thei