Polish Design Season: designer Agnieszka Bar has created a range of bottles with collapsed bases.
The bottles are hand-made from glass.
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Here’s some test from Bar:
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MELT BOTTLE/2008
Borosilicone glass, cork
Elegant container for liquids: water, olive oil, vinegar.
The subtle bottle’s line has deformed in the bottom part with high temperature. Object showed an essence of the glass matter. Handmade bottle from borosilicone glass.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
So, I was drinking from this bottle in a fashionable little cafe in Paris, and then all of a sudden I realised that my smoldering good looks had melted the bottle I was drinking from. When I started bragging to the waiter he quickly brought me a new bottle, thinking I was complaining and pointed to the pre-constructed melt. I was devastated…
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
i like this.
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
they are just bottles with melted bases. i did the same with a whole load of clear plastic soft drink bottles several years ago. next!
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
RE: bodkin
the language of glass is much stronger than plastic. sorry.
these are beautiful.
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
It would be difficult or impossible to clean these! Maybe they’ve designed a melted bottle-brush?
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I’m with bodkin and jason. these maybe could fly as an some artistic hub-bub but it really only looks like the rejects off the assembly line.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Unpractical.
Non-industrial design thinking.
Look —> Ross Lovegrove plastic bottle.
October 24th, 2009 at 7:46 am
I remember seeing these years ago in Copenhagen.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
yeah, wants to be lovegrove
October 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
i echo jason’s comment about cleaning these bottles! if its for pouring oil / vinegar, doesnt it need a better spout? struggling to see the ‘elegance’ in these.
October 25th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
have you checked out the work of marie retpen..
she graduated at rca london l2008 with very similar work with her Melt Down
http://www.retpen-glas.dk/Unika.htm
October 29th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Brilliant.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Can´t you just see pass the function and see the irony and beauty in the simplicity? I think its beautiful. And yes I agree with you El Zebra. Glass is much stronger, and also a more challenging material to work with.
I am having a glas workshop now, and its hard to make something random and broken with purpose look good.