Nendo:still and sparkling
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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 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 rene 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...

Still & Sparkling Lasvit presents a new collection created by Japanese design star Nendo. Pure and minimalistic, Nendo’s Press Lamps, Inhale Lamp, Innerblow and Overow 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.

X-Ray Vase This design is created by ne-tuning the two special characteristics of glass: transparency and reection. Transparent glass domes cluster inside a larger glass dome with a thin vapor-deposited mirrored coating. Placing owers inside creates an optical eect in which owers and domes are both hidden and visible. A design created by ne-tuning the two special characteristics of glass: transparency and reection.

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

Growing Vases 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 lled with abstract owers and branches. Metal pipes used by glassblowers, still attached to the glass objects that they were...

Growing Vases Item ID —— 11X003-00 Dimensions —— Dia 1000 x 1400 mm Weight —— 35 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass, stainless steel, white paint Light Source —— power LED

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 Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Light Source —— E 27 max 40W

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 ip the form: the metal mold becomes the table’s legs, while the glass becomes its at top surface. Each table is unique because each piece of...

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 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 Overow(06) Item ID —— 12X012-00 Dimensions —— W 490 x D 430 x H 310 mm Weight —— 2 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Overow(08) Item ID —— 12X013-00 Dimensions —— W 510 x D 380 x H 310 mm Weight —— 2 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Overow(11) Item ID —— 12X015-00 Dimensions ——...

Press Lamp The press design is availabe in two types: a pendant lamp and a oor lamp. In this design, glass tubes are pressed as though they have been pinched, and the light source is 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 Dimensions —— Dia 90 x 450 mm Weight —— 2 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Light Source —— E 14 max 40W Press Lamp (oor lamp 01) Item ID —— 12X008-00 Dimensions —— Dia 140 x H 460 mm Weight —— 3 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Light Source —— E 14 max 40W Press Lamp (oor lamp 02) Item ID —— 12X009-00 Dimensions —— Dia 140 x H 630 mm Weight —— 5 kg Material —— artistic hand-blown glass Light Source —— E 14 max 40W Press Lamp (oor lamp 03) Item ID —— 12X010-00 Dimensions —— Dia 140 x H 800 mm Weight —— 6 kg Material —— artistic...

Still & Sparkling by Nendo First 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 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systes or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the copyright owner(s). Printed and bound in...