Amethyst is a vase from Carol Gay’s Crystals collection, made by blowing glass around an amethyst stone that both shapes and supports it.
The Crystals collection grew out of Carol Gay’s research into the materials present in daily life and into individual and collective affective memory. Crystals were always present in the designer’s childhood, at handicraft fairs and among gifts received by the family, and the project sets out to highlight these minerals that populate Brazilian soil and have come to seem banal.
Working with blown glass, Carol Gay used the stones first to give the glass its form and later as a supporting structure. Amethyst, citrine, calcite and black tourmaline were chosen for their inherent color and form, with each stone selected to deform the glass while showing off its crystalline structure. The finished pieces play weight against lightness, and transparency against brightness and color.
This is a series of unique pieces: every vase has a different stone, so the shape of the glass differs from piece to piece.
Customization is available on request.
