ALBE I ATELIER GEORGE
ATELIER GEORGE - 2025
980 €
| Matériaux | Glass |
| Dimensions | Length - 110 mm Width - 80 mm Height - 300 mm |
| Details | Weight- 3,13 lbs |
| Limited to | 10 copies |
| Manufacturing | France (Bourgogne) |
| Délais | 6 to 8 weeks |
To mark ARCHIK's 10th anniversary, the agency brought together 10 artists and designers and invited them to revisit the same object the bookend through exclusive editions. A variation on a single theme, bringing together different skills and materials to reveal the stylistic richness of a library classic. A collection presented at the EX LIBRIS exhibition.
DESIGNERS
Atelier George
Atelier George is a duo composed of Eve George and Laurent Fichot, designers and glassblowers. Their work, which develops formal and technical research around glass, is exhibited at Design Miami, PAD Paris, Paris Design Week, and Artcurial in 2024. The duo is also the winner of the Concorso Internazionale di Vetro artistico e di Design (Milan, 2018) and the Académie des Savoir-Faire (Fondation Hermès, 2021). It is supported by institutions such as the Fondation Banque Populaire, the Ministry of Culture, and the Villa Albertine in New York. In 2021, Atelier George designed an exclusive first edition for ARCHIK, Tango, showcasing blown glass.
Their new piece, “Albe,” created for the “Ex Libris” collection, is inspired by a half-moon, symbolizing a moment conducive to reading. Its truncated disc shape seems to fade behind the books in a library. It emerges from a block of transparent glass, moiré with bubbles and white waves, resembling reflections. The composition also evokes a boat’s sail, and with it, a journey, whether imaginary or introspective. The half-disc is blown using the ancestral technique of cive: a bubble of molten glass that is stretched into a disc by centrifugal force. The base is made of solid, hot-cast glass.
