When glass is led to its maximum it delivers striking effects: from delicacy – as in Nendo’s exploration of feeble colours or in Meike Harde’s tableware made with real blossom flowers – to spectacular scenography, as in MVRDV’s latest transparent projects. Alongside, the Shanghai Museum of Glass opens a Glass Design Wing applying holographic effects to its screens.
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- 09 July 2016
– After casting glass bricks for over a year, studio MVRDV renovated an old building downtown Amsterdam, giving birth to a crystal facade.
– Designed by Coordination Asia the Design Wing is linked to the Shanghai Museum of Glass main hall, serving as a minimalist extension of one of Shanghai’s most unique museums.
– Design Museum Holon presents a complete retrospective of Nendo’s work, who was commissioned a major site-specific installation in the museum’s courtyard.
– Starting from traditional use of blooming as pattern for tableware Meike Harde captures the fragility of flowers in glass, creating three-dimensional effects.
– Taking inspiration from the botanical world, Cristina Celestino realised a collection of footed platters and trays born from glass gems, from the crushing of discarded coloured glasses.
– The luminous Glas stand packed with new ideas shows the importance of the R&D of advanced crystal processes. #MDW2016
– Inspired by a storytelling, real or fantastical, Jonah, Jumbo and George are part of the new collection of hand blown glass designed by Alessandra Baldereschi for Skitsch.
– In close dialogue with Frank Gehry’s building, the installation by Daniel Buren is installed across the glass ‘sails’ of the Fondation Louis Vuitton building in Paris.
– Is the way we use our kitchens the smartest possible? MVRDV answers with a fully transparent kitchen, presented in Venice in collaboration with Kengo Kuma.
– To meet the needs of people who soffer from skin diseases, studio L. McComber designed a space that uses light as a healing source, welcoming patients in a glowing atmosphere.
Top: Coordination Asia, Design Wing, Shanghai, 2016