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Alpha Blast by Marco Dessi
Milan 2010: Italian designer Marco Dessi presented a series of drinking glasses decorated with the pattern of netting used to packaged oranges.
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Called Alpha Blast, the project involved wrapping each glass in the netting and sand-blasting the surface.
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Dessi presented the project at Foodmarketo, a collaboration between Apartamento magazine and Designmarketo for Milan 2010.
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The following information is from Dessi:
Alpha Blast
For my contribution to this year's "Foodmarketo" a project by ApartamentoMagazine&Designmarketo -which this year revolves all around fruit and veg, I took oranges as my starting point and decided to marry the most mundane with fine Lobmeyr mouthblown glass.
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The orange net, hardly regarded as a thing of interest, does indeed have an interesting texture.
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And when used as a template for sandblasting it leaves a wonderfully graphic, even three-dimensional-looking ,footprint', one recognizes immediately.
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The fact that the ornament only appears partially like a shimmer and is never completely symmetrical, gives the object an instant liveliness and freshness underpinning its citrus inspiration.
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Mouthblown glass (drinking set "Alpha" by Lobmeyr, designed in 1952 by Hans Harald Rath), sandblasted, 2010
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