The glass collection “Poets”, proposed during Maison&Objet in Paris (September 2014), both at the trade show and at the showroom Boffi Bains Paris, was born by a collaboration between Massimo Lunardon, an artist and glass artisan who can blow and form the most unlikely shapes, and a handful of international designers. Andrea Anastasio, Italian but Indian by adoption; Sam Baron, French, stationed in Veneto as design director at Fabrica, accustomed to working with Massimo at the furnace; Studio Formafantasma, the Italian duo residing in Eindhoven; Martino Gamper, a South Tyrolean relocated to London; Martí Guixé, commuting between Barcelona and Berlin. As in the verses of a poem, the transparent works twirl, lightly tinted with coloured profiles, sharp notches, inserts of precious silks and fine grooves. The originality of the collection lies not so much in the forms that have the taste of tradition, as in the gestures, almost irreverent, planned by the designers for violating the perfection to which Massimo Lunardon is accustomed.
WHERE: Boffi Bains Paris 12, rue de la chaise