Lasvit - Nendo Still & Sparkling

Supported by Lasvit

Still & Sparkling

by Nendo

Japanese designer Nendo discusses his

inspiration and experience working with glass and

with Lasvit’s team of artisans:

“I frequently work with transparent material, however I fi rst began working with glass last year with Lasvit. Glass is the key

transparent material of all. Since then, I’ve traveled from Japan to Lasvit’s glass workshop in Novy Bor, Czech Republic six times.

During this time my partnership with Lasvit has helped me refi ne my skills in working with glass to achieve the quality and

forms that are being shown in the current collection. —— The source of my inspiration is the glass hot chop. Every time

I am in the glass workshop, watching the glassblowers in action, I discover little surprises. In this medium, the process defi nes

the product: some of the results can be bizarre, even weird. The most exciting thing for me is not to control the process of

blowing, but to see what new surprises it can produce. —— Each glass piece is unique. It depends on the individual glass blower

and his strength. It is also about the physical laws that govern the material and the process, such as gravity. It is all about

communication between the glass blower and the material. In this game, I provide design input, while recognizing that the glass

blowers and Tomas Kamenec, the head of this project, are the real players.”

Still & Sparkling

Lasvit presents a new collection created by Japanese design star Nendo. Pure and minimalistic, Nendo’s Press Lamps, Inhale

Lamp, Innerblow and Overfl ow tables, X-Ray Vase, and Growing Vases are all hand-blown by Lasvit’s glass masters. Each piece is

uniquely formed, and each represents a brand new and unusual technique in hand-blown glass.

This design is created by fi ne-tuning the two special characteristics of glass: transparency and refl ection. Transparent glass

domes cluster inside a larger glass dome with a thin vapor-deposited mirrored coating. Placing fl owers inside creates an optical

eff ect in which fl owers and domes are both hidden and visible. A design created by fi ne-tuning the two special characteristics of

glass: transparency and refl ection.

X-Ray Vase

X-Ray Vase

Item ID —— 12X001-00

Dimensions —— Dia 470 x 450 mm

Weight —— approx. 10 kg

Material —— artistic hand-blown glass

Light Source —— LED light bulb

By critical and popular demand, this design, which debuted in Milan in 2011 and has been exhibited in London’s Mint Gallery,

returns to Milan’s Superstudio this year. —— Extraordinary, playful, fresh, impractical, illogical, never seen before: these are

the words that can be used to describe Lasvit’s Growing Vases. The ideal complement to the new Nendo designs presented

at the Superstudio, this lighting installation alludes to a whimsical glass forest fi lled with abstract fl owers and branches.

Metal pipes used by glassblowers, still attached to the glass objects that they were used to make. By turning the pipes into

fl owers and branches and the glass into a vase, we literally turned convention on its head, making fl owers blooming in vases

into vases blooming from fl owers to represent the fl ower bulbs that draw nutrients from plants through photosynthesis and

store new life.

Growing Vases

Growing Vases

Item ID —— 11X003-00


Weight —— 35 kg

Material —— artistic hand-blown glass, stainless steel, white paint

Light Source —— power LED

Inhale Lamp

This lamp was formed by blowing glass into the form of an air bubble then sucking the air away. Ordinarily, glass is made by

blowing air into the molten material. The inhale lamp, on the other hand, comes from the act of exhaling. It‘s a form created

by negative air pressure.

Inhale Lamp (large)

Item ID —— 12X004-00

Dimensions —— Dia 410 (approx.) x H315 mm

Weight —— 3 kg


Light Source —— E 27 max 40W

Innerblow & Overfl ow

After great success in Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris, these two special designs are coming to Milan’s Superstudio.

—— Innerblow —— This piece is inspired by the way glassblowers draw a lamp of molten glass into the tip of a metal pipe and

create a form by expanding the glass with their breath, as it is blown down the metal. The glass masters expand the glass in a

square metal form, and leave it in place rather than removing it. They then fl ip the form: the metal mold becomes the table’s

legs, while the glass becomes its fl at top surface. Each table is unique because each piece of handblown glass is unique. ——

Overfl ow —— This piece derives from the unique forms created when the free-fl owing glass liquid hardens in place. The glass

masters place plate glass into a frame with one section missing, progressively heat the glass until it becomes molten, and

allow the molten glass to drain from the void in the form. When they permit the glass to harden again, the edge responds to

surface tension, creating a table with a surface that looks like a pool of water.

Innerblow (table)

Item ID —— 12X005-00

Dimensions —— 500 x 500 x H 300 mm

Weight —— 45 kg

Material —— artistic hand-blown glass, stainless steel

frame

Overfl ow(06)

Item ID —— 12X012-00

Dimensions —— W 490 x D 430 x H 310 mm

Weight —— 2 kg


Overfl ow(11)

Item ID —— 12X015-00


Weight —— 2 kg


Overfl ow(01)

Item ID —— 12X011-00


Weight —— 2 kg


Overfl ow(09)

Item ID —— 12X014-00


Weight —— 2 kg


Innerblow (bench)

Item ID —— 12X006-00

Dimensions —— 1400 x 400 x H 300 mm

Weight —— 190 kg

Material —— artistic hand-blown glass, stainless steel

frame

Overfl ow(08)

Item ID —— 12X013-00


Weight —— 2 kg


Overfl ow(12)

Item ID —— 12X016-00


Weight —— 2 kg


Press Lamp

The press design is availabe in two types: a pendant lamp and a fl oor lamp. In this design, glass tubes are pressed as though

they have been pinched, and the light source is fi tted into the narrowed space that results. Unusual in the fact that it does

not rely on a metal form, the compression of the glass produces a soft, organic form and imbues each lamp with a singular

appearance.

Press Lamp (pendant)

Item ID —— 12X007-00


Weight —— 2 kg



Press Lamp (fl oor lamp 01)

Item ID —— 12X008-00

Dimensions —— Dia 140 x H 460 mm

Weight —— 3 kg




Item ID —— 12X009-00


Weight —— 5 kg




Item ID —— 12X010-00


Weight —— 6 kg



Still & Sparkling

by NendoFirst published and distributed by

Lasvit s.r.o.

Edited and produced by Lasvit s.r.o.

Book Design – Denisa Myšková / Symbiont

Photo – Yoneo Kawabe, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Filip Šlapal,

Jaroslav Moravec

Text © Nendo and Lasvit 2012

© Lasvit 2012

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