Hydrangea - Water vessel

Glass

Brand: KORAI

Craft Artist: Takeyoshi Mitsui
DESIGNER: Shizuka Tatsuno

ORIGIN: Toyama Prefecture
RELEASE: 2018
SIZE: W180 × H80 × D180mm
MATERIAL: Soda glass

A natural beauty for daily life

Senseware is created to feel the natural undulation in our daily life. Filled with water and placed under the sun, the beautiful shadow of cascading light emerges. Concentrated in the glass vessel, a Japanese sense of natural beauty, a new scene of Kogei.

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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.
Soda glass
- Material
The most common type of glass. It is easy to melt and mold but is vulnerable to rapid heating and rapid cooling. It sounds slightly dull when struck. It is commonly used as tableware, bottles and flat glass.

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