Glass: a plentiful raw material consists of a mixture of sand, soda ash, limestone and additives. It is created by heating the components to a temperature of around 1600 degrees Celsius in large furnaces. The only downfall is the excess of energy required for the process.
According to a Swedish study using the shape of the original bottle as the base for new glass product only 1/4 energy is used compared to processing melted virgin or recycled glass material.
Glass is an ideal product for recycling; it can be reformed infinitely without loss of quality.
Designer Jan Torstensson became stirred with glass blowing in 1999 when a neighbour offered him used bottles and glass windows to experiment with. He found that blowing used beer bottles allowed for the opportunity to mold and play with an existing shape resulting in mindblowing products.
Maintaining used bottle's original shape is at the heart of the design. Reducing energy consumption by ¼ compared to mass melting recycled glass.
Lasistudio is a family run studio located in an old barn in idyllic Finnish
countryside 40km from Helsinki. Where they pride themselves on hand-blowing and sand-blowing reclaimed glass by hand.
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Glass is an ideal product for recycling; it can be reformed infinitely without loss of quality.
Slurp up a bit of brilliance!
Witty beer drinkers watch out as our crew from Lasistudio reclaim everyday beer bottles and transform them into slick new drinking glasses. Hik are conceived by hand blowing glass with no use of moulds. The result is outstanding! There are no two glasses alike. Available as a 2 pack or 6 pack!
material:
_reclaimed beer bottles
dimensions:
_6,5 cm x 13,5 cm
_2 glasses / pack
cart 0.00EUR
