The new (limited and numbered) edition created by the designers of Fabrica for the Roman Secondome brand is based on the combination of blown glass and oak in a search for dialogue between fragile and transparent glass and simple, solid wood. The result is a collection of hybrid sculptures centred on form that incorporate multiple functions.

Terroir by Sam Baron is a piece of furniture that falls midway between shelf and table, with incorporated glass bowls and vases. Catarina Carreiras' Optical Wand is a ball of glass that swells up and out from a wooden base in a form that resembles a large butterfly net. The modular blown glass accessories in Valentina Carretta's Magic Wands produce a collection of oil lamps and/or small flower vases. The most fascinating piece of all was designed by France's Marie Dessuant: Balance is a contemporary flower vase inspired by the Venetian glassmaking tradition and consists in a fluctuating glass element resting on a delicate wooden structure in a balance of solids and voids.

The glass parrot by Elliot Burford (an Australian illustrator) is the most abstract piece and a delicate glass and wood sculpture. Unco, a centrepiece by France's Margaux Keller, Tripod a round bowl by Korean Jaeun Park and Dean Brown's Complementaries (inspired by irrigation systems) all play, again, with the idea of balance. ES

Fiera Rho-Pero
Salone Satellite, stand C41
12-17.04.2011, 9.30 am-6.30 pm