Amber on Gray

Glass

Craft Artist: Takeyoshi Mitsui

ORIGIN: Toyama Prefecture
RELEASE: 2019
SIZE: W330 × H180 × D260mm
MATERIAL: Soda glass

Drifting in nostalgia

A hand-blown glass object in which light amber and gray layer over gentle curves. The hues which exude nostalgia, glimmer beautifully through the soft light. A work that creates a mysterious beauty that makes you lose track of time while falling in love with it.

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Chu-buki (Free-blowing)
- Technique
A technique whereby glass is formed freely in the air using tongs or trowels without the use of mold. After winding a small portion of molten glass on the tip of a blowpipe, the molten glass is soften with heat in a kiln and inflated into a spherical shape in the air.
Glassblowing
- Technique
A glass forming method. It is said that it began in ancient Rome around the 1st century B.C. Molten glass is wound on a blowpipe and then air is blown into it to form shapes. It is mainly classified into two types; free-blowing and mold-blowing.

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