Randall Grubb talks about Chris Buzzini’s contribution to torch working. Oral history interview with Randall Grubb by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 24, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:28.

Randall Grubb: So Chris, his history should really be based on his contribution to torch working, which is huge. I really think that although he’s an unbelievable lampworker, he never penetrated the market and never made a name like Paul [Stankard]. Chris was very good at building multiple layers. So here again—through playing with different techniques and pushing these techniques, it blurs the line between the two disciplines. Because oftentimes, you know, it almost takes an expert to determine which of these techniques is being used. And Chris, really, blurred the line with all of his, his personal Bridgeton Studio, that was the name of the studio that Chris had when he was in New Jersey, and then he went on to be one of the founding members of Orient & Flume in Chico, California, that was famous for the torchworking on the large vases and the beautiful, rich imagery that you can create that way. Chris was one of the pioneers, and then he brought it to Correia studios [Correia Art Glass, Santa Monica, California] at the same time. So looking honestly, retrospectively at his career, his contribution to the torch working world, because he cross pollinated and brought that torch to so many studios, and gave them the ability to do that imagery. That’s Chris’s legacy, in my opinion.