One of the most talked about installations at last year’s Milan Design Week was the Lasvit project that called for top designers like Fabio Novembre, Nendo and Mathieu Lehanneur to indulge in limitless ingenuity by creating a series of glass blown objects representative of love and light, which are the two protagonists behind the brand’s name – Laska (love) and Svit (light). The three resulting installations went above and beyond the called for striking metamorphosis of blown glass into modern art objects, presenting the world with inspiring realizations of “universe in a state of tension halfway between the rigid geometry of theory and the melting state of reality, halfway between an implosion and an explosion.” Fabio Novembre. Nendo’s explanation included a bold attempt to “turn convention on its head by making flowers blooming in vases into vases blooming from flowers to represent the flower bulbs that draw nutrients from plants through photosynthesisand store new life.” And finally, Mathieu Lehanneur’s creation was “halfway between quartz and gas, between mineral and animal, soft geometry is a stone which thinks and breathes.”
