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Glassware Glassware is going modern. Even after thousand of years, this magical material continues to inspire designers. It present revival is due to the use of borosilicate glass better known as pyrex. Long confined to canteen glasses and oven dishes, this versatile material has become very popular with young designers. It is easy to shape with a blow torch which means that designers can give free expression to...	Latest News... \| Pucci de Rossi is exposing at Cat-Berro Gallery, 25 rue Guénégaud Paris 6th. This brilliant sexagenarian constantly oscillates between art and design. The name of the exhibition - &ldquoLead and Lace&rdquo, cannot fail to attract our attention, just like the artist&rsquos work. \| Dornbracht, the luxury tap specialist, has just launched a sensual, sober tap range called "Supernova".	The 3rd edition of the International Glass Show will be held in Strasbourg from 14/10 to 30/11. The two-yearly International Glass Show will be...
Lire la suite Glassware Glassware is going modern. Even after thousand of years, this magical material continues to inspire designers. It present revival is due to the use of borosilicate glass better known as pyrex. Long confined to canteen glasses and oven dishes, this versatile material has become very popular with young designers. It is easy to shape with a blow torch which means that designers can give free expression to their imagination. Another quality is its high resistance which allows for finer lines which is what appeals to designer Laurence Brabant. She loves playing around with the contradiction between the apparent fragility of objects and their true solidity. The TOC series consists of a light tumbler with three accessories. "TOC.T" is a tube to brew tea, "TOC.O" is a lemon squeezer and "TOC.C"is a cone to make coffee the traditional way. The heat and shock resistance of borosilicate glass makes it highly versatile and perfect for tea glasses, glass and jug sets and coffee pots. Her delicate, poetical collections come to life in the hands of glassmaker Alain Villechange who perpetuates the fast-disappearing know-how of the lampwork glassmaker. The technique consists in melting and shaping solid glass in the flame of a table-top torch in conjunction with blowing. "Happy end", a set of three wine glasses inspired by an antique liquor glass are excellent examples. The tube formed during blowing has been kept to make a champagne glass. Pyrex, which is always transparent, takes on the colour of the contents. The hollow stem of a wine glass turns red when filled while the handle of the "Bavarde" coffe cup becomes brown. Designers Catherine Levy and Sigolene Prebois play the same contents-container game. Each of the patterns and colours of their carafe range-"Pétillantes", "Nuageuse" and "Ivre" corresponds to a particular drink. In the milky carafe, cordials and fermented milk take on mysterious, opaline glints. Its no good for red wine, which it turns a bluish colour, but it makes water cool and refreshing while milk-shakes take on a delicate pastel shade depending on their flavour. Crystal has also been caught up in the present wave of creativity. This noble branch of glass was revolutionised by an English glassmaker in the 17th century. Lead was added to the glass using a new method, enhancing its brilliance and transparency. Crystal took off in France in the following century where it is still made today by the same crystal glassworks using know-how introduced in the 18th century. The Grande Place museum in Saint-Louis-Les-Bitche presents this glorious tradition in eastern France. Not content to rest on their laurels, these world-famous glassworks work with designers to produce original pieces. The imagination of a Philippe Starck or a Jaime Hayon has revived their collections. Matias, one of the greatest glass designers today, combines traditional craftsmanship with modern taste. His glasses sets, inpired by 18th century Venetian glass, have an airy elegance. Further east, another glass making tradition is still very much alive that of Bohemian glass. Its greatest ambassador, Czech glassmaker Borek Sipek, has raised glassmaking to an art form. His rxuberant, coloured vases and glasses are more like sculptures. Environment-friendly sparkling glass, the leading recycled material, has not finished quenching our thirst. So let's drink to its long life !	Lire la suite Latest News... \| Pucci de Rossi is exposing at Cat-Berro Gallery, 25 rue Guénégaud Paris 6th. This brilliant sexagenarian constantly oscillates between art and design. The name of the exhibition - &ldquoLead and Lace&rdquo, cannot fail to attract our attention, just like the artist&rsquos work. \| Dornbracht, the luxury tap specialist, has just launched a sensual, sober tap range called "Supernova".	Lire la suite The 3rd edition of the International Glass Show will be held in Strasbourg from 14/10 to 30/11. The two-yearly International Glass Show will be presenting 14 exhibitions in and around the city of Strasbourg with a resolutely contemporary focus, reflecting the current expansion of Glass art, and including artists such as Yves Chaudouet, Rachel Maisonneuve and Jean-Pierre Umbdenstock. The first edition of the International Strasbourg Glass Prize will recompense artists who make the Glass themselves.

	Petr Vadura

Petr Vadura

Petr Vadura&rsquos creations are recent, and mostly made of glass and crystal. Petr Vadura produces unique pieces and limited series objets d&rsquoart made of glass under his own label: Petr Vadura design. In addition to this, he works in collaboration with a glassmaker in Czech Republic to produce sets of luxury glasses (the Stockholm set) .
Petr Vadura&rsquos most representative design work for other labels includes the Eau de Saint-Louis bottle for Cristal Saint-Louis, 2000 edition, Buddha vases for Artcodif-Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Djambe and Gaïa vases and the Symphonie crystal glass collection for Christofle. Sun and All the Jazz vases for Moser. A set of luxury Glasses , Vera, was launched by the same company in 2005. In 2007, Moser completed its collection of artistic works with its Op-Art, Moon and Lampion vases and a new set of Atlantic cocktail glasses .

www.vadura.com

	Dibbern

Dibbern occupes a special place in the table arts. The company, founded in 1965, has an innovative yet timeless style. Its designers create lines that are elegant, pure and functional at the same time. They know how to combine traditional arts with contemporary design. Most of Dibbern&rsquos products are hand-made. The glasses are polished by the glassblowers themselves and the wide range of colours is also applied by hand. Visit their website...

Dibbern

www.dibbern.de

	Riedel

Riedel

"The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make." (Quelle: Robert M. Parker, Jr. The Wine Advocate)
"The Riedel family has never stamped its name on a single bottle of wine. But over the past 50 years, this Austrian clan of master glassmakers has done more to enhance the oenophile's pleasure than almost any winemaking dynasty". (Quelle: TIME MAGAZINE)
Claus Riedel was the first person in the long history of the glass to design its shape according to the character of the wine. He is thus the inventor of the functional wine glass.
Make a journey through our world of glasses and senses. On the web site you will find detailed information about the glass creations and the unique philosophies of Riedel on the ultimate enjoyment of wine.

www.riedel.com

	Borek Sipek

Borek Sipek

Borek Sipek (1949 in Prague) is a furniture designer, architect, and glass artist. He is famous worldwide for his Postmodernist furniture designs and glass objects and has been called the successor of Ettore Sottsass. Borek Sipek has also achieved worldwide recognition as an architect. He is the architect of Prague Castle under the presidency of Václav Havel.
Borek Sipek studied furniture design in Prague, then architecture in Hamburg and Delft and philosophy in Stuttgart. In 1983 Borek Sipek moved to Amsterdam, where he opened an architectural and design practice. Borek Sipek taught architecture in Essen, Prague and Vienna.
Borek Sipek describes his sumptuous formal language as Neo-Baroque. Rejecting the functionalist approach to design, he feels that the striving for technical perfection in industrial mass production should not lead to disregard of the individual personality. Borek Sipek designs are formally very distinctive and the combinations of materials he uses are unconventional.

Arredo, Driade, Maletti, Steltman, Swarovski, Vitra, Wittmann

www.boreksipek.cz

	Histoire du verre, J. Bellanger

Histoire du verre, J. Bellanger

The mid-17th century saw an increase in the migration of glassmakers leading to a wider dissemination of styles and techniques. The art of glassmaking, mostly concentrated in England where new crystal making methods were invented in 1672 and in the Habsbourg Empire, home of the Bohemian glassmakers, was part of the Baroque movement. In France, the "poured" glass used for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, won the admiration of other sovereigns, dazzled by the pomp and splendour of Louis XIV's court. In the Netherlands, "glass engravers" showed exceptional talent. Everything was now possible: glass had achieved a transparency and luminosity unknown up until then. The ideal they had been chasing after for centuries had been at last achieved: a material that could be worked in the same way as rock crystal. For the art of glassmaking, the Age of the Enlightenment was also the Age of Light.

"Histoire du Verre du Baroque aux Lumières" by Jacqueline Bellanger, Editions Massin, 2008, 216 p.

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