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Strange amber glass "object" ID= Dragan Drobnjak designer, Serbia
glassobsessed:
Perhaps it was inspired by something like this: https://picasaweb.google.com/Johnmj100/ScandinavianGlass#5433585423581512210
Very clever those Iittala glassblowers!
John
Frank:
That one is marvellous, but yours looks more likely inspired by paperweights.
langhaugh:
I'm with Frank, except that it might not be a student. I've seen a few pieces recently with not very well done push-ins (see attached photo of one I bought just for interest). The technique does make the piece look different, without being very difficult or time-consuming.
David
rocco:
Thanks for your input, guys!
Apart from those internal glass bridges, I do not see much similarity to David’s glass ball; I know dimensions are difficult to realize on pics, but my object seems a lot bigger and more massive (diameter 23 cm, and surely weighs more than 1 kilogramm).
To me it does have a rather convincing 1970s look, perhaps mimicing the output of Czech glass artists at that time?
If you look through the 1970s exhibition catalogues on Jindrich’s site, there are several items in a vaguely similar style, by several designers:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/BohmischesGlasDerGegenwart1973?authkey=Gv1sRgCOaLqLbT7aDFqwE#
http://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/SoucasneSklo?authkey=Gv1sRgCLmUxeKE4dy0swE#
http://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/SKLOVGALERIICHDILA1977?authkey=Gv1sRgCKW4zLymqdCnbg#
In one of my 1970s design books I have also seen something similar from Japan (the other big Studio glass country); maybe another possibility?
Anyway, I like it, and it catches quite some interest here due to its „arty“, studio-glass appearance :D
Michael
langhaugh:
Michael:
I wasn't suggesting that my made in Canada piece was by the same maker as your piece. I'm very confident they weren't, in fact. But they are both roughly spherical with push-ins. So we have the same technique in John's Sarpaneva piece, your piece, my piece, some Czech and Japanese pieces you've found, which points to the fact that it's not an unusual technique and has been used widely used. I think your suggestion that it's 1970's studio glass is a good one. I wouldn't trade it for a Skrdlovice piece, though.
David
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