Collaborations
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Preston Studios has worked extensively with Liz Harris of Designers West to create a number of highly specialized and unique installations for homes in Central Florida. One on Lansing Island in Satellite Beach includes a large oval ceiling some 18 feet by 12 feet in size. The theme is derived from the French High Baroque, which befits the architectural "chateau-style" of the residence.
Another installation with Liz Harris is an entrance in
Bayhill, Orlando, for a private home. Here the clients specified that they wanted a full-on nature scene related to their lake-front property.
Preston Studios has worked with Liz on many other projects as well.
Interior designers can often work as the "translator" - giving the artists at
Preston Studios the right "art speak" to understand more clearly what each
client is looking for. Preston Studios has worked with numerous interior designers such as Betsy Godfrey Interiors and Suzanna Lawler at Lawler Cherry Design in Orlando, to Bill Hofer of Hofer Doster Designs in Ft Meyers..... Another major Space Coast interior designer Preston Studios has worked with
extensively has been Toni Mays....
CHRISTOPHER BURTON HOMES
Preston Studios has designed and created a number of works over many years for custom home builder Chris Burton. Entrances by Preston Studios with Christopher Burton Homes have graced many annual Parade of Homes models by Chris over the past ten years.
Each custom design was created to compliment the architecture of the home and is intended to be a permanent added value to the property. In the case of the photo at left, the theme was an "Italianate villa" - so the tuscan urn filled with Italian wildflowers became an appropriate graphic sentiment. The urn itself and the wild flowers were hand painted and kiln-fired onto the glass by master Stanley Klopenstine.
JOYAL CONSTRUCTION
Preston Studios first worked with Joyal Construction back in the late 1980s, but more 
recently in the past five years created a number of entrances and installations with interior designer Toni Mays, chief interior design conultant to Joyal.
Over the past 20 years or so Preston Studios has ocmpleted many custom installations with Joyal Construction. The latest series over the past 5 years includes a number of very specialized new works called "faux wrought iron." What appears to be wrought iron is actually kiln-fired black pigments applies by master artist Stanley Klopfenstine. The designs are all by John Emery. Unique sets of beveled glass are featured in this technique, along with both colored and textured glasses. Altogether a very "rich" appearing entrance that will never rust.
CHARLES BOYD HOMES
The first major builder to commission a major stained glass entrance from Preston Studios was Charlie Boyd in 1989. It was a sensation at the time and made it into five magazines, one nationally distributed .
Conceptually it was intended to create an immediate and "grand" impression, with mirror beveled peacocks in each door. It was also one of the first major show pieces to use the (then) brand new Spectrum "baroque" glasses.
Over the past more than twenty years of collaborations Preston Studios has worked with Charlie Boyd on many installations. The most recent was for his new and amazing Cocoa Beach home......
This time Preston Studios was called upon to create two matching mirror images reflective of the wrought iron railing created by Fred Garbotz - very curvilinear and water-related. Exotic European hand-rolled "antique glasses" were used along with glass jewels, resulting in rainbows of color across the floor at different times of the day.
