Homune Table by Michael Young
British designer Michael Young has collaborated with the Czech Republic-based glass manufacturer LASVIT to create Homune, a functional table compounded of a hand-blown, amber color glass base and a hand-blown table top from clear crystal.
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For the sophisticated glass solitaire, Lasvit developed a specific blowing technology based on 3D visuals to articulate Michael Young´s design. Using the 3D visuals to understand the fractal structure, Lasvit’s team in Navy Bor created special steel molds for the glass to be blown into.
The table leg is made of 36 separate glass fractals, with six different designs repeating six times. Each of the 36 pieces is hand-blown and then put together to form a geometric-shaped leg, that’s perfectly contrasted by a smooth, clear crystal table-top.
“It was incredible to go back to my craft based roots. We discovered that by blowing glass into only one metal tool and cutting it at different lengths we could make logical and functional structures, the first thing being this special edition table“, says Michael Young.
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Design: Michael Young
Manufacturer: LASVIT
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Joseph on 25 Sep 2012 at 8:15 pm #
WOW! What an amazing design! and using such a hard to work with material to make the piece come together! Now that you came up with the molding for the glass, what other geometric shapes can you make? I love the way the light reflects off of the multi dimensional structure. It would be cool to experiment with different lighting sources and colors, combined with the use of different colors of glass. I can imagine this piece expanded to the size of a structural pillar; with the base about 4 feet wide and as you move up the pillar the shape would twist and expand/retract to be almost wave like. With the center of the pillar covered with either a mirror finish followed by internal based lighting shining upward or a frosted glass center pillar with lighting running all the way up the column..to create an ambient lighting affect, then the geometric outer glass structure would in a sense “glow” and reflect the light.
Every time i look at this i see a different pattern! What an exceptional piece! It almost has a DNA spiral affect to it that would look amazing on a large scale! Keep up the great work! way to innovate and come up with a new way to form and structure Glass. I commend you!
—Joe