Trend alert! Tinted Glass

Tune in to this ballad of beauty as colour finds muse in glass

03 Apr 2023

A ballad of beauty is shaped as colour finds muse in glass, a new-found appreciation for tints is birthed and the penchant for life through tinted glass transpires. With alluring forms and multiple perspectives, tinted glass will now rule hearts.

Trend And Style Direction by Yashika Punjabee Styling assistant Juhi Agarwal

From left, GLASS VASE by Dean Flowers, available at Dialogues by Nirmals, ₹5,750 BLACK AND NAVY “TORUS” VASE from AYTM, available at Sources Unlimited, price on request HAND BLOWN GLASS VASE by Klove Studio, ₹6,000 manifest a visual treat as 4 MM THICK MIRROR by Gian Brothers Glass Works, ₹150 per sq ft makes the base and the backdrop; Photograph by Ankush Maria

FROM LEFT An arrangement of Bright Blue And White Glass Tealight Holder from H&M HOME, ₹1,299 Hand Blown Glass Decanter from Riedel, available at Poliform, price on request, makes a strong case for the trend with 4 MM Thick Mirror by Gian Brothers Glass Works, ₹150 per sq ft enhancing the setting

The world is not the same without colours and glass is no exception. Adding beauty to normalcy is coloured glass.

Design Letters “Ombré” Glass Chair, part of The Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts & Design and the Thierry Barbier- Mueller Collection by Germans Ermics

Hand-Blown Murano Glass And Hand-Finished Electroplated Brass “Flauti Circular Chandelier 51 Rose”, part of the Flauti collection by Giopato & Coombes

Hand Blown “Pomegranate” Azure Glass Vase, part of the Andaz Pomegranates collection by Suite No.8

Full Coloured Glass Caps And Jars by Polspotten

Tinted Glass “Marvelous Duo” Yellow And Purple Vase by KARE Design, available at Dialogues by Nirmals

100% Colour-Fast Borosilicate Glass Large “Generous” Vase In Milky Green, part of the New Generous Vase Collection by DESIGN LETTERS

Petrol Blown Glass “Soda” Coffee Table by Yiannis Ghikas for Miniforms

Ready to build that glass house, with fleeting colours and a dash of drama? Indulging in the limitless lure of light teasing colour, Glas Italia and Piero Lissoni’s Sherazade Slide Patchwork creates a symphony with tinted glass to create poetry in space. Photograph courtesy Glas Italia

Tinted glass is certainly here to reign and how! Proving the prowess of colour with the magic of sheer see-through virtues of glass, the life-size installation Kolonihavehus by contemporary American sculptor, Tom Fruin of his namesake studio has hand-welded nearly one thousand scraps of coloured glass into the delicate steel quilt. Dreamy, colossal and unique, just like our aspirations, the possibilities with tinted glass and endless are unmatched; Photograph byMatthew Pugliese

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