River Vase by Sini Majuri is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Furniture Design Competition Category.
IronFurniture· 2022
River Vase
by Sini Majuri
Client: Icy Design Oy
A' Design Award Winner in Furniture Category
Verified Award Winner
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About River Vase
River is a mouth blown glass vase inspired by a blue river in Suonenjoki, Finland. The vessel is 22 centimetres tall and has a simple oval shape. Each piece is studio made and hand shaped in Finland, so the flow of colour within the glass layers is unique. The colour moves across the surface like flowing water. Small soda bubbles at the base react with light. Every vase is signed by hand. The design joins a calm Scandinavian form with Finnish glass blowing to create a timeless and durable everyday object.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
River Vase is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. River Vase is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. River Vase is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The River vase is studio made from mouth blown glass. Every vessel has unique water like flow of color. Collection mixes Scandinavian cool with capricious Finnish glass blowing techniques that allow color flow freely within the glass layers.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 22 cm tall mouth blown glass
- Tags
- vase, finland, suonenjoki, vessel
- Production Technology
- Studio made, hand shaped glass
- Design Challenge
- The challenge of the design is to create movement of river in a way that it flows beautifully with the simplified oval shape. Every vessel of the collection is unique. Therefore all the pieces created must have the same soul, but the unique charisma.
- Research
- The River vase aims to capture the essence of flowing water with the means of mouth blown glass. The impression is desired to be flowing, free yet harmonious. The contrasts in nature are the main research viewpoint of the collection.
- Inspiration
- River vase is inspired by a blue river located in Suonenjoki Finland. The collection plays with the elegance of the movement of liquid glass that is frozen into a stasis that is fragile yet forever. The rhythm of the glass making process ensures that every vessel has unique splashes of color that mimic the dance of flowing rivee water. Every vase has their own breath. Its a methaphor for a soul of a piece that makes it more than mere interior object.
- Project Duration
- River vase is designed in 2021 for the city of Suonenjoki
- Operation Flow
- Studio made vessels are expertly handcrafted in Finland. Each mouth blown object has unique watery texture and is signed by hand. There are soda bubbles on the bottom that react with light. The design philosophy behind the series is to create elegant, timeless and durable everyday objects. The vases gain their value from their high quality and design.
- Patents
- Sini Majuri, Helsinki, Finland
- Image Credits
- Sini Majuri, Helsinki, Finland
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