Putti with Birds

Putti
"Putti" is the Italian word for cherub and a specialty of Italian glass artisan Pino Signoretto. In bringing two renowned glass artisans, Pino Signoretto and Lino Tagliapietra, to Pilchuck to work together, Chihuly created a design that Lino would blow and Pino would affix to the glass. They put them together in installations such as the Museum's "Putti with Birds" to show all the different ways that the putti could look, sit, and play.