growing vases – 大作社

Tortona, Milano

2011.04

for Lasvit

During this year’s Salone, an exhibition of three designs by three designers including Mathieu Lehanneur and nendo under the art direction of designer Fabio Novembre showcased the artistry of venerable Czech Bohemian glass maker Lasvit’s glassblowers.

在今年的Salone中，由设计师Fabio Novembre的艺术指导下的三位设计师包括Mathieu Lehanneur和nendo的三个设计展览展示了着名的捷克波西米亚玻璃制造商Lasvit的玻璃吹制工艺品。

We were assigned the abstract theme ‘cocoon’, and asked to create work that would directly convey the quixotic appeal of glass as something that is impractical and incomplete, but provides a breath of fresh air, opening up new possibilities.We decided to take the brief in a playful direction, and to suggest both breathing and the incomplete by displaying the metal pipes used by glassblowers, still attached to the glass objects that they were used to make. By turning the pipes into flowers and branches and the glass into a vase, we literally turned convention on its head, making flowers blooming in vases into vases blooming from flowers to represent the flower bulbs that draw nutrients from plants through photosynthesis and store new life.

我们被赋予了抽象主题“茧”，并要求创作能够直接传达玻璃的不切实际的吸引力的作品，这些作品是不切实际和不完整的，但却提供了一股清新的空气，开辟了新的可能性。我们决定采用在一个有趣的方向上简短地说，并通过显示玻璃吹制器使用的金属管来建议呼吸和不完整，仍然附着在他们用来制作的玻璃物体上。通过将管道变成花朵和树枝，将玻璃杯变成花瓶，我们在其头上变成了常规，使花瓶中的花朵绽放成花朵盛开的花瓶，代表通过光合作用从植物中吸取养分并储存新生命的花球。