Art and designג'רמי לנגפורד

Jeremy Langford

Jeremy Langford is a British-Israeli glass sculptor and designer known for the Chain of Generations Center at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

born 1956Chain of Generations Center, JerusalemMonumental stacked glass sculptureGlass art for synagogues

Occupation: sculptor

Jeremy Langford was born in 1956 in London

Jeremy Langford was born in London in 1956. His family came from the Netherlands, and the original surname was Lelyveld. His father, Barry Langford, was a BBC producer and director.

As a teenager he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he began working with glass by melting bottles in an old ceramic kiln. He later returned to England and trained as an apprentice to a glass artist.

In the 1970s he opened a studio in London and divided his time between the UK and Israel, experimenting with stacked glass sculpture. His works stand in hotels, synagogues and public buildings in Israel, the United States and England. In 2006 he created the Chain of Generations Center at the Western Wall, a site of glass sculptures on Jewish history.

Langford has studied Ashlagian Kabbalah since 1977 and was a student of Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1984 to 1991. He married Yael Itach, a quantum chemistry researcher, and they had 5 children. Together they founded Galim: The Human Potential Institute in 1995, and Yael died in 2009.