The new season includes a range of hand-blown cups and carafes in four fresh colours – red wine, apricot, orange and lemon yellow – and a collection of six beautiful vases.
The vases are available in lemon yellow, red wine, amber and speckled apricot and will be available online and in-store alongside the dynamic offering of glass objects straight from Monmouth Studio.
Monmouth is a traditional glassblowing studio. The furnace holds 120 kilos of glass and is kept molten at a temperature of 1110 degrees Celsius twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Every piece is gathered from the furnace then hand shaped and blown using time-honoured glassblowing techniques that date back hundreds of years.
Isaac Katzoff and Stephen Bradbourne, the artists who founded Monmouth Glass Studio, maintain their individual practices (of sculptural pieces and murine-style glass respectively) while also producing a range of handmade glass objects for everyday use.
“There’s something special about using handmade objects in daily life”, says Bradbourne. “Instead of saving things for ‘special occasions’, we like to think you can have things that are good-looking and well-made, now.”
Despite the disruptions of the past year, Katzoff and Bradbourne have found time for experimentation in the hot shop: “blowing glass is part of who we are and we’re not sure what to do with ourselves when we’re not able to get into the studio,” Katzoff says.
“But, we’re grateful for all the support we have received from our customers over the last year, which has kept us motivated and allowed us to experiment with new shapes and colours.”
The new collection will be available in-store and at www.monmouthglassstudio.com from Friday 19 March 2021.
Monmouth Glass Studio Retail Store: 5 Great North Road, Grey Lynn.
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