Thom Sebastian Menschhorn 2010 grip - Trinkservice No.281

Sebastian Menschhorn 2010

grip - Trinkservice No.281 Marco Dessi 2009
Alpha Ellipse - Trinkservice No.267 Decoration: Monica Singer 2010	One Crystal Chandelier Thomas Feichtner, 2011

Marco Dessí 2010

The starting point for Dessí’s design was the reproduction of an early baroque glass-arm-chandelier from Schloss Hof palace near Vienna. Marco Dessí reinvented the use of those glass rods and created a modern looking chandelier with a classic feeling.

Inspired by the shape of traditional lanterns, he was weaving a basket-like structure using hexagonally bent glass tubes in combination with silk cords. The lighting unit was selected to be a twisted spiral on a slim pole with halogen bulbs. The silk ropes leave room to create bespoke variants to match the ambience of the perspective room.

Gregor Eichinger 2010

Inspired by old heavy and colour overlayed Biedermeier tumblers, Gregor Eichinger decided to use deep black overlay, which is cut at the rim and on the bottom with a simple cross. Only a single vertical incision has been chiseled asymmetrically into the flashing, allowing one to see into the glass from the side. The fact that the effect is reminiscent of the high-cut slit of a “little black dress” … or not.

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Ted Muehling 2010

The delicate workmanship and the cut base emphasizes the perfectly balanced tumbler shapes very well. The diamond cut, which is inviting to touch the glass, is quite a challange for the glass cutter.

Ted Muehling states a sensitive masculine counterpoint to his first series he did for Lobmeyr.

Max Lamb 2010

Quartz sand is the main raw material for glass production. A quartz crystal that grows in an uninhibited space will form a perfect hexagonal prism.

'Quarz' is a series of crystal tumblers representing perfect mathematical quartz prisms. Quarz references the shape and material from which the tumblers are made, as well as the German spelling of the mineral -'Quarz'- relating to Lobmeyr's Austrian roots. The hand cut and polished hexagonal facets allow an arrangement in a Giant's Causeway type landscape, the fascinating geological phenomenon on the Northern Irish coast renowned for its hexagonal basalt columns. Each glass is engraved with the artist’s initials beside the Lobmeyr sign.

Sebastian Menschhorn 2010

The mouthblown, handcut and polished glass objects look like shaped in a lathe. The roots of this series are found in both cultural spheres – Europe and Asia. The 1000 year old temples at Angkor have similar turned pillars from stone. In the architecture of Josef Hoffmann you will find horizontaly grooved structures with nearly the same section. In spite of their tranparence the objects maintained their archaic strenght.

 

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Marco Dessi 2009

The italian Marco Dessi, designed a series which should attract for joyfull everyday use. A rather technical looking design comes to life, if it is produced by skilled craftsmen. A special lamella cut has been developed, which should suggest a technical aesthetic and functionality. Highest importance is assigned on the haptic pleasure when drinking from the glass - literally the "grip".

Decoration: Monica Singer 2010

Hans Harald Rath, designed the „Alpha“ set in 1952. The even shape full of tension makes the glasses lie smoothly in the hands. The idea came from a medieval copper tumbler, itself influenced by Islamic shapes. Following the trend of the fifties the glasses can be stapled – bearing the spirit the Frankfurter Küche (“for the young household”).

Thinnest Musselinglas, mouth blown into wooden forms, gives them elegance. Alpha is available with a tilted stone engraved line around the tumbler. You think gravity plays mad and the watersurface is dancing in your glass.

 
One Crystal Chandelier
Thomas Feichtner, 2011

With the One Crystal Chandelier, Thomas Feichtner has reduced the classic Lobmeyr chandelier to its very essence. A cable, a bent metal tube and a single crystal - lit by an LED. In celebration of a new luxury, which is no longer about putting on a show, but instead about the simple enjoyment of materials, form and function. The hand-cut crystal at the heart of the chandelier refracts the light of the power-LED, transfusing it with the warmth we know from classic chandeliers. A hanging light for early collectors, which can easily be augmented to create a full group.

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