The Glass Garden began, literally, with one bucket of plate glass. Landscape designer Andy Cao, wanted to evoke some of his childhood memories from Vietnam; the rice terraces, banana groves, and particularly the surrealistic salt fields. Crushed plate glass proved to be the best material to replicate the salt. Andy, and his business partner Stephen Jerrom, began the slow crude process of cleaning and sifting many tons of recycled plate glass to make their vision a reality. As the garden took form and co-operation with a large recycling company grew, more sophisticated machinery took the place of hands-on labor. It took two years of trial and error, but on February 22nd, 1998, the Glass Garden debuted in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, and to the surprise and delight of its creators, a new company was born. Back