cassina Sestiere Vase
SESTIERE VASE
SESTIERE VASE
Designed By Patricia Urquiola
A glass partnership : A collection of contemporary vases that preserves and interprets the quintessential Venetian legacy.
Sestiere perpetuates traditional glass processing and creatively reinterprets it in a lively tribute to Venice.
The vase is designed as a blown glass ball that is almost harnessed by a net of cords. Each cord, or ‘morisa’ in the Murano tradition, is applied by hand to the exterior of the vase, lending it a pleasingly imperfect effect. The morise are decorated with ‘rigadin’, the typical striped motif of the lagoon.
DESIGNER
PATRICIA URQUIOLA
Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo (Spain) in 1961. Lives and works in Milan. She attended the University of Architecture at Madrid Polytechnic and Milan Polytechnic, where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni. Assistant lecturer to Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli in Milan and Paris, responsible for the new product development office of DePadova, working with Vico Magistretti, head of Lissoni Associati’s design group.
In 2001 she opened her own studio working on product design, architecture, and installations. Amongst her last projects of architecture. The museum of Jewel in Vicenza, Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona, das Stue Hotel in Berlin and the Spa of Four Seasons Hotel in Milan; showroom and installations for Gianvito Rossi, BMW, Cassina, Missoni, Moroso, Molteni, Officine Panerai, H&M, Santoni and the general concept of Pitti Immagine Firenze.
She realize design products for the most important Italian and international companies, such as : Agape, Alessi, Axor-Hansgrohe, B&B Italia, Baccarat, Boffi, Budri, De Padova, Driade, Ferragamo, Flos, Gan, Georg Jensen, Glas Italia, Haworth, Kartell, Kettal, Kvadrat, Listone Giordano, Louis Vuitton, Molteni, Moroso, Mutina, Rosenthal and Verywood
Some of her products are exposed in various Museums and collections, such as MoMA in New York, Les arts decoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Design in Zurich, Vitra Design Museum in Basel, Victorian&Albert Museum in London, Stedelijk in Amsterdam and Triennale Museum in Milan.She has won several international prices and awards.
Amongst others the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes (Gold Medal of fine arts) awarded by the Spanish Government; Order of Isabella the Catholic, awarded by His Majesty The King of Spain Juan Carlos I; “Designer of the decade” for two German magazines, Home and Häuser, “Designer of the Year” for Wallpaper, Ad Spain, Elle Decor International and Architektur und Wohnen Magazine. She is Ambassador of Expo Milano 2015. September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina.
INFORMATION
PRODUCT TYPE
Vase
PRODUCTION
Made in Italy
BRAND
Cassina
DESIGNER
Patricia Urquiola
USE
- Home
- Office
DIMENSION
- Height : 37, 26 cm
- Width : 23, 27 cm
COLOUR
- Ametista
- Bluino
COLLECTION
Sestiere
PRODUCTION YEAR 2023
The Sestiere vases combine the ancient artisan Murano glass-blowing techniques with contemporary design ‒ a blown glass ball that is enveloped, almost harnessed, by the net-like ‘morise’ cords, decorated with the typical striped motif of the lagoon. The traditional vivid colours interact with a clean, sharp design for a boldly graphic appearance.
CHARACTERISTICS
CHARACTERISTICS
Vase and cord, two very different glass languages, harmoniously co-exist to create an unprecedented partnership between form, function and craftsmanship. Each vase becomes a unique piece, a visible and tangible expression of hand craftsmanship.
ONE-OF-A-KIND VIRTUOSITY
In the art of blown glass
‘MORISA’ CORDS
Each ‘morisa’ cord is different from the next, pleasingly imperfect.
