(continued) In Glass Collector’s Digest, Volume IX*Number 2, August/September 1995 in an article entitled “Art Nouveau, Frederick Carder, and the Steuben Glass Works, an Exhibition at the Rockwell Museum” by Robyn G. Peterson, the author says at p. 61-62
“A. Christian Revi, who knew Frederick Carder personally and discussed his conception of Art Nouveau with him on several occasions has noted, ‘Almost everything made at the Steuben Glass Works has a perfectly symmetrical form and is well balanced. The few times one begins to see the free-flowing lines indicative of true Art Nouveau influence in Steuben’s wares, it will be apparent, too, that even then it has been tempered with the deep-grained sense for classical designs with which Mr. Carder was so thoroughly imbued.’ Carder’s single minded devotion to the medium of glass also set him apart from most Art Nouveau designers, who worked in a wide range of media. An insistence on high-quality craftsmanship, however, is one are in which he was fully in line with the European progenitors of Art Nouveau. As Revi state, ‘nothing “shoddy” ever left the Steuben factory during his tenure there.’