New Efftre colours, where?

KatheL · January 13, 2014, 05:38:46 PM

Can anyone tell me which European dealer normally gets the new Effetre colours first?
They always get presented at Frantz Art Glass in US first, and it takes forever till they reach the dealers I know off..

Kathe, Denmark

Shirley · January 13, 2014, 05:41:04 PM

Tuffnells have just had some Effetre arrive, and also a new Double Helix glass.

helbels · January 13, 2014, 05:41:35 PM

Frantz has an exclusive relationship with Effetre which allows them to have colours custom made for them by Effetre, and they are the only stockist of those. So a lot of the Effetre colours you see on Frantz never leave the USA (Unless of course you choose to order from them!)

KatheL · January 13, 2014, 06:39:07 PM

Thanks!

Kathe

Amber · January 29, 2014, 02:39:40 PM

It's so frustrating, I try not to look at Frantz because I always see a fabulous new Effetre colour there...just fallen in love with Ka-bluey!

Nicknack · January 29, 2014, 02:45:20 PM

Quote from: Amber on January 29, 2014, 02:39:40 PM
It's so frustrating, I try not to look at Frantz because I always see a fabulous new Effetre colour there...just fallen in love with Ka-bluey!

In my opinion Ka-bluey isn't worth it. It looks lovely on the website, so I ordered some with other colours when I was in the US last Sept. I brought it back to be an interesting colour to be played with by the members of the Devon Flameworkers, and we all tried it and found it wanting. You get grey with a few streaks of blue - very boring.

Nick

Amber · February 03, 2014, 12:58:42 PM

That makes me feel a bit better about not having any - thanks

binty · February 03, 2014, 06:10:55 PM

I just saw on LE that they persuaded effetre to make sandstone, but Frantz had to buy the whole production run. I don't know why, because that was a very popular colour here too.

helbels · February 03, 2014, 06:53:23 PM

Apparently all the "special" colours you see on Frantz are made specially for him by Effetre, and again, he gets them because he's prepared to buy the whole run. Being in the US, he clearly has a large enough customer base to make this feasible, whereas with the UK being much smaller, Tuffnell's would take years to shift the same amount I'd imagine.

I'm not sure if Tuffnell's get stock from Frantz as a vendor or not - if so, it would explain why they had some Sandstone a while back.

KatheL · February 05, 2014, 11:40:34 AM

Sediment is also available at www.artyco.nl . It is worth it checking out the Dutch and German vendors, they often get the special colours after a while.
Kathe, Denmark

jammie · February 05, 2014, 12:00:23 PM

i really liked sandstone, theres nothing else like it either.

KatheL · February 05, 2014, 08:29:41 PM

I think artyco has that too, I bought both colours from them
Kathe