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Juuri by Sarah Böttger
Designer Sarah Böttger of Germany has created a series of containers made of glass components joined with plastic rings and disks.
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Called Juuri, the project involved making three different blown-glass shapes, cutting them in eight places and joining them together different combinations.
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The resulting series comprises six different vessels in blue, green and grey tones.
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The text that follows is from Böttger:
Three shapes, eight cuts and six vessels - a set of glasses with many possibilities. Inspired by the manufacturing process of glass, they all go back to the same basic form – but via well positioned cuts they turn into six different vessels.
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The combination of glass and flexible plastic gives the objects their functional qualities.
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Both materials have their own characteristics.
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The glass is transparent, fragile, shows reflections and gives the impression of changing its color once it is filled.
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In contrast, the plastic is flexible, matte, robust and provides the necessary properties to make the object work well.
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By means of a big lid, a small lid and a connecting ring, the forms can be used to combine functions.
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Open or closed, big or small, grey or green, the vessels are diversified not only by their shapes but also by their colors.
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They offer a variety of applications within different contexts left to the single user.
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