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in the footsteps of his father, a potter. But he had something else in mind. “It seemed like everyone was making pottery and no one was making glass,” he recalls. So Pearce set out from Ireland, where he was raised, to learn the trade of glassmaking, traveling throughout Europe and apprenticing in places like Orrefors in Sweden and Venini in Italy. The journey lasted almost four years, and at the end of it, he came home to
