growing vases

2011.04（Tortona, Milano）

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.

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 flowersblooming in vases into vases blooming from flowers to represent the flowerbulbs that draw nutrients from plants through photosynthesis and store new life.

在今年的Salone展会上，包括Mathieu Lehanneur和nendo在内的三位设计师在设计师Fabio Novembre的艺术指导下设计的三件作品展示了备受尊敬的捷克波希米亚玻璃制造商Lasvit 's glassblowers的艺术。

我们被分配到抽象的主题“茧”，并要求创造作品直接传达玻璃不切实际的吸引力，作为一些不现实和不完整的东西，但提供了新鲜空气，开辟了新的可能性。我们决定采用一个有趣的方向，通过展示玻璃吹制器使用的金属管来展示呼吸和不完整，仍然连接到他们用来制作的玻璃物体上。通过把管子变成花朵和树枝，把玻璃变成花瓶，我们真正地将“习俗”转变了，把花瓶里盛开的花朵变成了从花朵中绽放的花瓶，来代表通过光合作用从植物中吸取营养并储存新生命的球茎。