In The Workshop With… Siemon & Salazar, Blown Glass Artists

Husband and wife team, Caleb Siemon and Carmen Salazar, have been working together, designing and making hand blown glass vessels and lighting fixtures for 22 years. They met while studying at the renowned Rhode Island School of Design. Upon graduating, Caleb went to Venice, Italy, to train with a master glassblower, while Carmen went to San Francisco and worked with a variety of artists, including an environmental land artist, metal sculptors, glass blowers and horticulturists. She went on to earn her Masters in Architecture in LA.

With Carmen’s background in many art fields, as well as architecture, interior and landscape design, they brought many talents to the table and launched their first lighting lines together in 2008. “We are inspired by the natural world around us and the inherent beauty and idiosyncrasies of the materials we use.”

They run their studio together in Santa Ana with a small team of master craftspeople, and keep a small shop in Laguna Beach, their hometown, where they showcase their own work as well as other local artists. Laguna Outpost is open by appointment. Carmen also works as a landscape designer, focused on drought-tolerant, California natives and South African flowering varietals.

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Laguna Outpost

1492 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA

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