Description
During an artist in residence at the Glass Factory in Boda, Sweden, Nilsson created around twenty of vases – this is one of the last one from that period.
Designer Jonatan Nilsson’s ambition with the “Shifting Shape” project was to create a flexible mold for glassblowing. He likes the distinct shapes that you can get with mold-blown glass, and wanted to create a method where you don’t have to go through the time consuming and expensive process of making a completely new mold in order to obtain a new shape. Nilsson ended up designing a machine constructed in sheet metal in which you can fasten different shapes of wood.
The machine’s doors turns on hinges and you are able to slide the wooden shapes back and forth, allowing you to get in and out with the glass when blowing. The designer made the wooden shapes (that give the finished glass its shape) in a quick manner, and combined them with each other in different ways. It’s quite hard to tell exactly how the finished glass will turn out just by looking at the silhouette created between two wooden shapes. Nilsson likes the fact that there is a bit of a built-in chance factor in the process since it gives way to unpredicted shapes in the finished glass. An ambition with the project was also to show how much a manufacturing process affects the result of the finished product.
Additional information
| Weight | 1,5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 25 × 15 × 31 cm |
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