A paperweight can be both functional and a natural or manmade work of art. A paperweight can be a favorite rock found on the beach to hold down papers on your desk. It can be a chunk of round glass or ...

Colored candies, blueberry bouquets, and delicate butterflies are captured beneath glass in Saint-Louis’s imaginative paperweights. Since 1953, the esteemed crystal manufacturer has made whimsical ...

Glass paperweights are often found among the kitschy collections in flea markets and thrift stores, but they’re also having a moment in the contemporary art world. “They’ve actually become quite the ...

It might be something that would normally go unnoticed on your desk. But one Winona artist takes the age-old art of making glass paperweights to a whole new level. “The paperweight tradition started ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Rare paperweights, many from the 19th century and held in ...

IT’S FUNNY WHICH IMAGES remain imprinted on our minds, like vivid snapshots, for years and even decades after we’ve first seen them. They can be of anything—the soft weave of a childhood blanket, a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One afternoon in Paris in 1948, when Truman Capote was young, he accompanied his friend Jean Cocteau to visit ...

Jane Huey has collected paperweights since she was 13, when her grandmother gave her three of the colorful glass orbs as a gift. “They’re so intricate and so delicate,” says the now-65-year-old Ms.