Close Up

Born from Cristina Vezzini’s collection of seeds, Close Up is a “glass container of Bone china seeds” handcrafted by London-based design studio Vezzini & Chen.

“Close Up light ‘grows’ from my inspiration towards seeds and light. I collect seed… every where I go I search for one and I connect to it my emotion and memories from that specific space and time. Seeds are the trigger of my memories.” Says Cristina Vezzini, from Vezzini & Chen.

Close Up is a “glass container of Bone china seeds”: the bone china pieces, inside the glass form, are slip casted and hand carved individually, while the glass pieces are free blown by Sheng Tsang Chen so that each one is unique and bespoke.

On the glass, bubble-lens are created to distort and magnify the view of the Bone china inside. The Bone China appears distorted and magnify as looking inside a microscope. The connection between the material Bone China and the ‘immaterial’, light allows to create a connection between the visible and invisible natural world. Close up, available as pendant and as table light, uses a LED E14 light bulb.