Lasvit: Emotions / 23

Contemporary glass creativity is translated into an installation of one-off pieces that include works by Daniel Libeskind and Maarten Baas, presented at Milan Design Week.

This year, too, the space in via Stendhal 35 is host to the creations of the Czech company, where Daniel Libeskind and Maarten Baas are joined by Michael Young, Arik Levy, Jan Plecháč and Henry Wielgus.

Libeskind proposes Ice, a chandelier that challenges the traditional rounded forms of Czech blown glass.With its edgy sharp design, deformed geometrical elements fit together like a puzzle inside a one-metre equilateral triangle.

Lasvit, Emotions — Top: Arik Levy, Crystal Rock, Lasvit. Above: Maarten Baas, Das Pop, Lasvit

Maarten Baas draws on classical and recognisable forms with his Das Pop chandelier, to give it a modern and almost comical, caricaturish touch. Moulds, a design by Jan Plecháč & Henry Wielgus, is a collection of suspended lights that portrays the specific moment in which the liquefied glass begins to resist and escapes the mould to assume the shape of a random, amorphous bubble.