Glass Is Tomorrow

TLmag speaks with Eleonore Peretti, the recently appointed Director of MusVerre, a dynamic museum in Northern France dedicated to glass.

TLmag sat down with Barbara Nanning about her practice and show at Pierre Marie Giraud in Brussels which explored her rich, versatile, and colorful work.

The new exhibition littala – Kaleidoscope: From Nature to Culture brings the history of the company together in one place in an unforeseen manner.

Front Design is known for creating playful, avant-garde objects. Shifting between research-driven and experimental projects, the eponymous Swedish design studio embraces tactile and surprising elements to lend their designs a sense of magic.

French designer Samy Rio creates objects that bridge traditional crafts and modern industrial processes through playful and functional material combinations.

Berlin-based designer Philipp Weber works with elemental materials to explore craft processes. TLmag speaks with Weber about emphasising process over outcome, and the relationship between maker and material.

A sculpture created by Guillaume Bottazzi was recently placed in Mallet-Stevens’ garden which attempts to modify our perception of the environment.

Berlin Glassworks presents Tacit Dialogues, an ongoing and multidisciplinary research project which looks into internalised and embodied knowledge.

Spazio Nobile presents ‘Threads of Nature’, a group exhibition exploring and reflecting upon interactions between humans and the natural environment. Arranged together, the works provide a means of reconnection to the natural world; a visual and tactile reforming of the elements.

Contemporary Czech glass art has created a major imprint in the world, and today is pulsating, full of life, and a vibrant component of the global scene. This new generation of glass artists is defined by a sense of artistic restlessness – a generation searching and experimenting.

Costanza Rinaldi speaks with David Landau about changing perspectives on Venetian glass by creating spaces for collaboration, research, and experimentation.

TLmag catches up with visual artist John Hogan, whose iridescent glass sculptures seem almost as though they are from a different universe.