A Passion for Glass: The Dan Klein & Alan J. Poole Private Collection

A dazzling collection of modern glass was gifted to National Museums of Scotland by Alan J. Poole and Dan Klein in 2009. Their collecting began in the late 1970s and over the subsequent thirty years they assembled one of the most comprehensive collections of modern British and Irish glass. Dan Klein held directorships in Christie's auction house and, among other appointments, was Professor of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland for eleven years. He was one of the first people...