Dare to Dream
By: Eva Slunečková
Photo: Barbora Idesová
Go to the Opera
Recall the ambience of your favourite opera house at home. Inspired by the silhouettes of historic chandeliers from five of the world’s greatest theatres, the Neverending Glory lighting collection is a masterpiece of glassmaking. Hand-blown glass beyond the bounds of the possible.
Visit a Workshop
The concept of mingei, or folk craft, has been a major influence on modern Japanese design. With special attention to utility and restrained beauty, it embodies the universal appeal of craft design for everyday use. Drawing inspiration from this phenomenon, Japanese designer Nendo created unique lamp sets and called them Press.
Meditate
Since ancient times, many flowers have symbolized peace and love, values as fragile as glass. And Alice is simply the perfect flower – delicate, original and special, illuminating any interior with a warm and gentle glow. Nurture your body and mind through daily meditation practice and improve your concentration. Let everything blossom like this visually delightful chandelier.
Take a Ballet Class
It resembles an ever-changing living organism. It alludes to volatile emotions, innermost feelings and primitive fears. Like a ballet dancer, the glass kinetic sculpture A:Live has its own vocabulary of movement and captivates with its sophisticated means of expression.
Visit a Planetarium
Star clusters in the night sky and the lights and shadows of New York City’s nightscape inspired the designers at Rockwell Group to create their Constellation lighting collection. The series is dominated by a spectacular chandelier with the recognizable silhouette of the constellation Cassiopeia. It is set to make you feel like you’re looking directly at the celestial bodies of the ever-expanding universe.
Keep Things in Perspective
Sometimes we have a hard time dealing with a problem and we run round in circles. The best thing to do is to stop and take a step back to see the situation from a distance. You may get an entirely new perspective and your universe suddenly turns upside down. The Spacey chandelier resembles planet Earth seen from afar and is made of lithyalin, a glass of unique appearance. Opaque, marbled and resembling semiprecious stones, this glass is produced by means of special technology, invented in northern Bohemia more than 200 years ago and now resurrected in the same region by Czech designer Lukáš Novák.
Learn a New Language
Do you want to express yourself in a way that only those who know will understand? There is certainly a reason for the Czech saying “Every language you speak makes you a different person”. The Cipher Collection gives you the opportunity to “write” your own design statement using glass, to encrypt the space that surrounds you so that only the person who speaks the same language as you will understand it. Whether that means Czech, English, German, Bulgarian, or the language of mutual understanding.
Observe the Clouds
They float over our heads, but we all see something different in them. Clouds are an ideal space to train our imagination – what one person perceives as an animal-like shape, another sees as a face. A thousand people, a thousand interpretations hiding behind one mass of clouds.
Collect Wild Flowers
Nothing has a more soothing effect than contact with nature. Remind yourself of it every day at home thanks to a special glass technique that allows you to imprint any flower on the glass. The Herbarium collection is a tribute to wild nature, to simplicity and to freedom.
