Orrefors Carat Coaster Large

The Carat collection is based on a contemporary interpretation of the traditional cut glass for which Orrefors is world-renowned. The irregular geometry produces beautiful reflection...

The Carat collection is based on a contemporary interpretation of the traditional cut glass for which Orrefors is world-renowned. Carat Coupe has a stem covered with the collection’s...

Yugen Round Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: Ø 36 x H 5 cm. Materials: Optical glass. Weight: 12 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

An amazing, rare and large vintage glass plate or tray made by the talented Oiva Toikka, known as “Kastehelmi” Iittala, Finland. This is a gorgeous glass plate, the color is vibrant ...