Dwight Lanmon discusses the Houghton era of Steuben. Oral history interview with Dwight Lanmon by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 5, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:05.

Dwight Lanmon: This was in part, I think, due to what happened in 1932 or so when Arthur Houghton took over Steuben, and took it over from Fred Carder and wanted to change it dramatically, and what he did was to bring in architects and designers and artists, and not really glass people. And so you have the great early—you know, the thirties, forties, fifties, Stueben which is designed by people who were not glassmakers at all, but were simply aesthetics—aesthetes, who knew the modern design world. I think they were also influenced by Sweden, by what was going on at Orrefors [Orrefors Glassworks, Orrefors, Sweden] and elsewhere. But the modern movement was really started by Arthur Houghton and his compatriots, and I think it was continuing into the sixties and seventies when they said, ‘Okay, we’re gonna be independent designers, we’re not gonna be derivative of glass history.’