– For the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ettore Sottsass, the exhibition in Venice, celebrates his glass and crystal production.
– The glasses collection Barware Nove by the Venetian Vetreria Salviati is back. Nine shapes with six grinded decoration, a traditional technique that becomes contemporary.
– Located on the French Riviera, the extension of a Provençal house cladded in glass is conceived by Ellena Mehl Architects as an extension tightly related to the existing landscape.
– Snøhetta has designed a unique 65 sqm bar for the expansion of Oslo Airport re-using over 4000 original Norgesglasset jars to clad the ceiling and back wall.
– In the installation at Le Stanze del Vetro by Pae White, in Venice, every hand-cast brick is unique, owing much to chance and variation inherent in the manufacturing process.
– Created together with glasscraftsman Vicent Breed, Samuel Accoceberry designed a series of coloured vases inspired by illustrated Chinese literature.
– The new collection of Aldo Cibic for Venini is a hybrid object in between a lamp and a vase, manufactured with the ancient technique of the milk-white opal glass.
– Sleth’s proposal for the extension of the original Tønder town hall is based upon the dialog between the historical town hall and an addition that is a distinctly open and transparent public house.
– Inside the new Issey Miyake store in Milan, Tokujin Yoshioka showcases his new glass creations for Glas Italia with unexpected silhouettes, which shine like fountains.
– Inside the main hall of the Instituto dei Ciechi di Milano, Wonderglass has set up a display of new and revised projects all involving water.
Top: “Ettore Sottsass: the glass”, exhibition view, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2017. © Ettore Sottsass by SIAE