Glass Bottles by Louise and Colin Hawkins
British glassmakers Louise and Colin Hawkins have their own studio (LoCo Glass) in the heart of Cirencester, England, where they produce their handmade glass creations. Each piece is hand blown and made in their characteristic style, using a variety of both traditional and modern techniques.
“We aim to make work that is forward thinking, exciting glass for the modern interior with an emphasis on creative design and skilled craftsmanship,” say the Hawkins.
Seen below are some of their glass bottle designs.
Visit Louise and Colin Hawkins’ website – here.
FLUTE – a delicate and elegant range of clear tapered bottles with coloured, blown stoppers. These flow from the neck and finish with a cut and polished rim.
POMME – Designed around the ‘Toffee Apple’, these bottles are finished with a long elegant polished stopper.
FRUIT – The fruit scent bottle range includes four different shapes: Peach, Pear, Plum and lemon, both decorative and functional, each bottle has a drop style stopper that has been ground with a flat stalk effect.
HELIX – Bottles with straight stoppers that sparkle with a fine applied trail. Each is ground to fit it’s own base that is blown in a variety of jewel colours.
FLAME – The flowers of the exotic bird of paradise plant were the original inspiration for these elegant scent bottles and decanters, available in various contrasting colour combinations.
Visit Louise and Colin Hawkins’ website – here.
Charles A. Replane on 13 May 2010 at 1:21 pm #
Colin,
We are the Yanks that once lived in Wanborough and purchased quite a few of your pieces. Even after we left the UK to return to the U.S. I visited your shop during a business trip to the UK and pruchased a piece you once had in your home; “Fire”. You also did a special piece for us that is a Seder Plate that we use at our celebration of the Jewish Holiday of Passover.
We currently live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Our Museum of Art is a small, but well respected museum with an excellent permanent collection and on a list of fine visiting collections and exhibits. They have just finished a $7 million expansion project that included a new lobby and entrance hall. The director would love to have a modern chandelier that would make a statement and show their growing interest in various mediums of art. He spoke just recently to me about how to raise money for a Chehuley (spelling?) piece like hangs at the Victoria and Albert and I mentioned to him about your work, showed him a couple of the pieces you have done for us, and recalled that you had done some chandeliers for a yacht not too long ago.
The question is whether you would be interested in exploring the idea of creating a rather large chandelier, either reflective or with lighting within, that would hand in the entrance hall of our museum.
If you are positive about this I would put you in touch with our museum director.
We continue to enjoy your work, and get the appropriate lighting in our various room to accent the pieces. It always solicits favorable comments from our guests.
Regards,
Charles Replane