Dwight Lanmon discusses Steuben’s designers. Oral history interview with Dwight Lanmon by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 5, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:44.

Dwight Lanmon: It was very interesting while I was there as before I became director, in—at Corning, that I got to know all of the Steuben designers very well. And I said, ‘Come on over and let’s talk about these things, and see what you think of them,’ and their answer was, ‘We never go in the museum, because we don’t want to have anybody say that we’re derivative.’ ‘We never look at historic glass.’ And I thought, ‘That’s sad.’ And fortunately during my time there that attitude changed. But they were so afraid of being judged to be derivative of earlier styles, and I think that fortunately that that attitude is now significantly over.