Blumenhaus Wittelsbach
Munich, Germany
Florian Hardwig

Click the detail shot to see it large. If you have ever bent neon you see more than a nice sign here. You see evidence of painstaking effort from the hands of an experienced craftsman. Those sharp corners (such as in the ‘n’ and ‘u’ or at the end of the ‘t’ crosses where the glass goes back into the metal) are incredibly difficult to make without misshaping the glass. Usually you’ll see a slight dent at these bends. This is a work of honor and pride where no corners were cut. Signs like these were made to last, recognizing that each will be seen by thousands, perhaps millions, over its lifetime.