30s Cognac Glass by Saara Korppi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Competition Category.
SilverFine Art· 2019
30s Cognac Glass
by Saara Korppi
Client: Saara Korppi
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Fine Art Category
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About 30s Cognac Glass
The work was designed for drinking cognac. It is free-blown in a glass studio. This makes every glass piece individual. Glass is easy to grab and looks interesting from all angles. The shape of the glass reflects light from different angles adding extra enjoyment to drinking. Due to the flattened shape of the cup, you can place the glass on the table as you wish resting on either of its sides. The name and idea of the work celebrate the ageing of the artist. The design reflects the nuances of ageing and invokes the tradition of ageing cognac improving in quality.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
30s Cognac Glass is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. 30s Cognac Glass is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. 30s Cognac Glass is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The idea behind this work came to me on my 30th birthday. Back then, I made an art glass object to celebrate turning 30. This item belongs to the same glass series as it shares the same inspiration and shape. I wanted to do something special where glass looks good every angle. And I like challenges.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I wanted design shape that looks good every angle and makes different reflections with liquid inside the glass adding enjoyment for drinking at the same time. The glass should be easy to grab and clean, and be light and thin. This was a challenging goal and led me to want to learn to blow glass better technically.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
To get recognition, have showcase it the glass in exhibitions and sell it.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This cognac glass is free-blown in a hot-shop and possesses very thin glass. Due to the technique used, every glass piece is unique. The bottom of the cup has two inner-blown arches forming a special flattened shape. These two arches make it possible to put the glass on the table as you wish resting on either of its sides.
The glass is easy to grab and looks good at every angle. The shape of the bottom of the glass is meant to reflect light from different angles, adding a special enjoyment to drinking. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Maximum Width 100 mm x Height 105 mm
- Tags
- design, cognac, glass, snifter, graft, tradition, quality, blown
- Production Technology
- Used material is glass. This is free-blown in a hot-shop in the glass studio.
- Design Challenge
- These glasses require a high level of glass blowing skill. At the beginning, the most difficult part was to make two identical blown arches to the bottom. Also, it was important to conduct research to find the right bottom angle and distance between the arches. I examined how temperature affects the bottom angles, thickness and distances between the arches. Finally, I found the right way to produce them.
- Research
- I made drinking glasses from glass. I made drinking glasses with glass blowing techniques.
My goal in my research is to improve the taste of the drink by improving the functionality, shape and reflection of the glass containing the liquid. It took a long time to find the right working method. By mastering the glass blowing techniques and processes I managed to create a new type of glass series. - Inspiration
- My inspiration comes from Finnish nature, especially from the element of water. I am inspired by water in all its states: as liquid, steam and ice. Water moves and freezes just like glass. Both ice and glass reflect light and shapes in interesting ways.
The idea behind this work came to me on my 30th birthday. Back then, I made an art glass object called 30s to celebrate turning 30. This item belongs to the same glass series as it shares the same inspiration and shape. The base design reflects the nuances of ageing and invoking the tradition of ageing cognac for quality. - Project Duration
- The project started in September 2016 in Osterbybruk in Sweden. The production continued in Helsinki and was finished in May 2017 in Helsinki in Finland. The objects were exhibited in Ikkunagalleria Hytti in June 2017.
- Operation Flow
- This object is meant for drinking cognac. The recommended maximum allowable liquid level is halfway an inner arch when you hold a glass.
The sections offer a perfect place to grab the glass and sniff the scent of the drink. Watch the reflections of the liquid from all angles.
After drinking the cognac, you can put the glass on the table on either side. The glass can be washed in the dishwasher. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Saara Korppi
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : Photographer Henni hyvärinen
Image #2 : Photographer Henni hyvärinen
Image #3 : Photographer Henni hyvärinen
Image #4 : Photographer Henni hyvärinen
Image #5 : Photographer Henni hyvärinen
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