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Experimenta

With his ready-to-made operation Giuseppe Bessero Belti gives new life to old glass from fuel lamps, turning flame into a flower and fuel into water.

Experimenta vase transforms flame into flower, and fuel into water, reinterpreting old oil lamps and changing them into different kinds of vases.

Each vase comprises a cylindrical container, made using the glass from old oil lamps, along with a plastic ring and a series of adapters that allow it to be fixed to the container, making it more stable.

A factory in Limoges produced the body using the white brushed porcelain (“biscuit” finishing). The are two kind of glass: the unique pieces, purchased in shops that specialise in selling oil lamps, in flea markets, and in antique shops; the standard ones bought from different resellers.