Comments on: Lanterne Marine by BarberOsgerby for Venini

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:42:11 +0000

Well i think its a wind up because the first picture is surely a full pint of milk in an old style glass bottle with an orange top protector on to save from birds pecking the foil lid off and a roll over cage around it to save having glass all over the pavement.{which is no longer allowed by health and safety}
OR its a glass milk bottle shown full for illustration purposes with a catch funnel and an anti-break cage around it so you can place it under a cows udder to enable free filling by gravity as cows should be able to give milk and not have it taken away from them as a freedom of milk issue.
The second photograph shows an alternative bottle{surely is intended for chocolate milk shake hence the smoked glass} and a different kind of catch funnel for a more mature cow whoose teets are nearer the ground therefore the need of a narrower funnel is adequate whereas the orange funnel in picture one with this particular well endowed beast kept getting knocked off the top off the bottle so the funnel protrudes into the bottle therefore meking much more stable.
If you can remember bubble gum flavoured slush with that blue colour you`re heading for a revival of that very same taste but in a milk shake available at every well stocked shop soon with the third picture of an empty bottle awaiting filling shown.
Shown in picture four are a few of the different size and colours in the range for every flavour and consumer and they are intending to supply and if i may draw your attention to the earthenware style alternative to the demi-jon keeping the old cork style top for a scrumpy flavoured milk if one or more of their cows decides they wish to take up the apple and hops an hour diet would be available and of course a cage is desperatly needed havent you seen a cow after some apples n hops.
On a Saturday night our village pub is over-run with them.
Scrubbers.
Further photos show the process of manufacture which involves glass,heat and rushing about to avoid dribbles and breakages and different ideas of funnel and cage shapes to again avoid dribbles,breakages and dissapointment.

By: hedin

hedin — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:33:37 +0000

Wow these are so incredible and new looking. I like these guys. Really powerful shapes and I agree with Prof Z about the Barber Osgerby forms and color.

By: Piero S

Piero S — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:10:48 +0000

I saw these vases in Milan in the Venini showroom. I think that the bottle form comes back from the marble table they did for Cappellini.
The cages is a very strong concept coming from the language of nautical artifacts and the shapes are really very Barber & Osgerby – Beautiful.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:07:25 +0000

Strikes me as extremely Bouroullec. That being said, they’re beautiful. I may have missed in the text the reason for the cage — purely aesthetic?

By: Prof Z

Prof Z — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:33:23 +0000

I saw other photos …and i change my previous comment ( but the trend cage is everywhere in lighting and object design)
It’s not a cage , it’s more a modernize metal structure of XIX venetian ? english? dress on a very Barber Osgerby form + colors (as there are Bouroullec’s forms+ colors…)= identity +differenciation.
It’s more difficult for designers as Barber Osgerby or Bouroullec because they dunnot use overdecorated design as Wanders and Hayon….but i like the hayon cage “turk” vase too …

By: steen 3

steen 3 — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:26:04 +0000

Absolutely beautiful. On the contrary I think the shapes are super elegant and contrast well with the cages. Great colours too, be good to see more colourways…

By: steen 3

steen 3 — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:40 +0000

Absolutely beautiful. On the contrary I thing the shapes are super elegant and contrast well with the cages. Great colours too, would be good to see more colourways too….

By: royal creme

royal creme — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:46:43 +0000

I like the cages, but wish the vases had come in more interesting shapes.

By: Fish fingers

Fish fingers — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:35:11 +0000

The nicest thing they have done imo

By: ANTONIO B

ANTONIO B — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:14:13 +0000

lovely…