dual – glass set
Sophia Basso
Student
Sophia Basso Academic staff
Francesco Alessandro Faccin Alessandro Mason Course
STANDARD Program
BA Major Design Semester
2022/23 WS Martini, Margarita, Shot, Water, Spritz, Wine, Mojito, White Lady, …
Dual is a set of 6 flipable glasses, each one on its own designed for water on one side and a different cocktail on the other. In our project we combined a picnic with an aperitivo, so I came back to this in the design of my glasses. I combined two different glasses in one, in each a water glass and a cocktail glass. I started from a standard semi-finished material, borosilicate glass tubes, and changed the shape of the glass tubes only minimally, to transform them into drinking glasses. The “dual” glasses are easily transportable and stackable, and therefor also space saving.
Made in cooperation with the glassblower Tommaso Colesanti and Vetro Ricerca.
A project made in the course
STANDARD
“I take an industrial object, an unquestionably beautiful object because it is absolute, I make a small intervention, I introduce a dissonant element, this is design. I wanted to highlight that the use of the semi-finished product where there is no aesthetic concern always gives rise to a perfect object” (Enzo Mari) In this semester starting from standard products given by the contemporary industry, unified at an international level, we will try to retrace the spirit that guided Enzo Mari to the realization of one of the most emblematic and radical projects in the history of Italian design: the putrella series. designed in 1958. This apparently simple object comes from deep reflections and gives us the opportunity to reflect on issues such as: efficiency and alienation of work, extractivism and geopolitics, sustainability of processes, logistics and last but not least, aesthetics.
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