Venice:
Palazzo Franchetti – Emmanuel Babled – Osmosi. At Palazzo Franchetti
overlooking the Grand Canal and the Accademia Bridge, until July 28, Emmanuel Babled’s Osmosi exhibition. Osmosi is an edition of vessels designed by
Emmanuel Babled, which consist of glass and marble pieces, marrying the two
materials into sculptural objects, furniture and lighting.
Emmanuel
Babled – Osmosi. The designer is
intrigued by the natural beauty of glass with its potential of transparency and
colors and especially the fluidity of the form. He believes that the process of
hand-blowing glass contains a natural, random graciousness. Meaning something
he didn’t design but finds during the production process as a gift. In the
Osmosi project he captures this dynamic naturalness of the glass and use it to
shape the marble too. Making it seem like if the glass has blown the marble.
Emmanuel
Babled – Osmosi. By creating two unique
pieces that match each other perfectly, the glass and the marble, and though
they are separate pieces but one is none without the other. They fit together
through gravity alone and like Cinderella and her glass shoe, there is only one
unique piece of glass that can fit in one unique piece of marble. The effect is
a perfect symbiosis between the materials. The
glass is produced by the Venini furnace in Murano and the marble by Testi in
Verona.
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