TUĞBA ÜNSAL

Tuğba Ünsal was born in Denizli/Turkey in 1976. She has always the passion of producing creative things since her childhood. In order to follow her passion, she graduated from department of Chemistry. She became chemistry teacher in order to convey the information that she gained. She started to design by transferring all the information- that she gained- to her hands.

She established company in order to create her own brand. Since 2004, she designed more than hundred jewelries with the understanding of haute couter. In order to improve her capacity, she learnt, "art of fire" from Ursula Distler in Beykoz Glass Furnace in the first year, Maria Michaela Möller in the second year. In this way, she joined glass art.

She made TV programme in local TV Channel about design making. She is inspired from Ottoman and Middle Age. She combined glass with texture in her designs and wrote stories for them. Her design called "Traditional Turk gene is found" was exhibited by Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Now, she continues to design for her first exhibition in her Efruze Glass Workshop...