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year 2000s
material glass
source title The International Design Yearbook 17: Special Materials Edition
info One of Ingo Maurer’s earliest creations was a vase, but so long have we associated the designed with poetic, ethereal and theatrical lighting designs and installations that it comes as somewhat of a surprise to find his name among the three people invited by Salviati to design hand blower Murano glassware. (The other two are American: Ted Muehling, who designs jewelry and decorative objects, and architect Johanna Grawunder.) Although Maurer was asked to reinterpret a medium with which he is relatively unfamiliar, he succeeded in producing a series of sculptural pieces of striking beauty. He ‘enjoyed working with the old masters tremendously’, although he found the process complicated and the glass unpredictable: ‘Glass has a life of tis own, I wanted to touch it and bent it, but of course I could not. I was creating in my mind and was entirely dependent on someone else.’ Since his appointment as artistic director of Salviati, British glass designed Simon Moore has endeavored to bring this traditional glass-manufacturing company into the twenty-first century. The designs of Muehling, Grawunder and Maurer join those of Nigel Coates, Tom Dixon, Toord Boontje and Anish Kapoor, whose 1999 collection began to challenge the concepts of Venetian glassblowing and to lead it in new directions.
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year 2000s
material glass
source title The International Design Yearbook 17: Special Materials Edition
info One of Ingo Maurer’s earliest creations was a vase, but so long have we associated the designed with poetic, ethereal and theatrical lighting designs and installations that it comes as somewhat of a surprise to find his name among the three people invited by Salviati to design hand blower Murano glassware. (The other two are American: Ted Muehling, who designs jewelry and decorative objects, and architect Johanna Grawunder.) Although Maurer was asked to reinterpret a medium with which he is relatively unfamiliar, he succeeded in producing a series of sculptural pieces of striking beauty. He ‘enjoyed working with the old masters tremendously’, although he found the process complicated and the glass unpredictable: ‘Glass has a life of tis own, I wanted to touch it and bent it, but of course I could not. I was creating in my mind and was entirely dependent on someone else.’ Since his appointment as artistic director of Salviati, British glass designed Simon Moore has endeavored to bring this traditional glass-manufacturing company into the twenty-first century. The designs of Muehling, Grawunder and Maurer join those of Nigel Coates, Tom Dixon, Toord Boontje and Anish Kapoor, whose 1999 collection began to challenge the concepts of Venetian glassblowing and to lead it in new directions.
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