We're Becky and Dean Derby and we're happy you're here looking at the results of our hard work and creativity. We opened Back Porch Glass Chimes in July of 2006 and we're already in 35 stores scattered across 17 states.

For those of you who find these pieces somehow familiar, we'd like you to know that we're carrying forward the spirit of the wonderful glass work created by Diane Prekup and Mark Hardies of One by One Originals. We met Diane at the Buyer's Market of American Craft in Philadelphia and she turned out to be our Angel of Opportunity. She had recently moved on to textiles from her glass, but still had people calling for her chimes. So we raised our hands and Diane kindly mentored us to carry on the work she had started.

We'd like to be clear - we aren't One by One Originals, but we have Diane's blessings to use her patterns as Back Porch Glass Chimes.

Some of our pieces are very close to Diane's originals, while others are creations of our own.

In every case, each piece is carefully handmade - from the cutting of the vibrant Spectrum Glass we use all the way through the fusing and final assembly - at our studio in the Hudson Valley area of New York.

New Paltz, NY

www.backporchglass.com

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