
Plug is a project combining cork and glass by Tomas Kral, a masters graduate from the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland.

The collection includes lamps, storage jars fruit bowls and a small table, each made from hand-blown glass and CNC-milled cork.

Photographs by Michel Bonvin .

The following information is from Kral:
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Plug: Cork-glass project
From Master degree graduations at ECAL (the University of Art and Design Lausanne)
Plug is a range of products that transform the image of a simple cork bottle stopper. The work
is around the connection between glass as a hard and compact material and the cork, a porous material.

The glass parts were done using free glass blowing. The cork parts were made out of the sheets of agglomerated cork
which were milled using CNC.

The cork parts use the marks from the CNC milling tool as a part of their construction.

The idea is to build 3D objects by milling using 2D drawings.

The objects’ functions are simple. The idea was to put more attention on the connection between glass and the cork.







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Posted by Rose Etherington




July 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Good job
July 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
this are brilliant works! =) i love it
the first image has great configuration! i think the cork ’shade’ does not function as a shade anymore, but as a beautiful form to acomodate the cord and the ballast.
good stuff
July 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
really like the foms, the connections and the materiality. bravo.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
the first lamp is inspired by the Pantheon in Rome
July 7th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Daring original work, so not everything works, IMO the mix of light and cork isn’t pertinant but formally the designs work well.
I find the table a very strong piece alongside the fruit bowl, as Baldskull mentions clever “connections” being made with almost Bouroullecesque sensitivity and attention to detail.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:59 am
nice, well done , hanging on is the best
July 8th, 2008 at 2:54 am
nice work.
I appreciate the way that you explore different material conbime together
July 8th, 2008 at 3:32 am
this is super nice stuff!!! well done!
July 8th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Well done mate, nice details
July 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Simple, beautiful, honest.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:49 am
love the fruitbowl and 3way lights and the milled cork connectors.
great work great ideas.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
everything is fantastic with this work. BRAVO!
July 8th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Just missing some low consumption light bulbs….
the rest of it is very well done !
July 8th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
earlthly, beautiful.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Talented hands behind new technology-
I LOVE these,
I need a CNC mill…
July 9th, 2008 at 9:32 am
These are fantastic, high tech with an earthly feel. awesome!
July 9th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
ecal is…. the future of eindhoven
great!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 3:27 am
very nice…
one feels like having one of those