The legacy of designers together with Ray Eames and Eileen Grey is translated into cocktail glasses in designs by college students at HEAD Genève in Switzerland.
The mission, titled Spirits – Glorious for the Head, options seven glassware designs created by college students from the Area and Communication masters programme on the Geneva-based artwork and design college.
College students labored in pairs to create glassware designs that commemorate the characters of pioneering girls artists and designers from throughout historical past.
These designs additionally highlight rising stars Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Anab Jain, alongside Magdalene Odundo and the late Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Valentine Schlegel.
“There may be an pressing want for a fairer and extra balanced historical past of design, whether or not in schooling, exhibitions or in main commerce occasions just like the Milan design week,” the organisers mentioned.
“And who higher than the scholars to hold this vibrant homage to previous and current girls designers?”
For every glass, a cocktail was developed with the identical considering.
Emile Demerliac and Victoria Jospin designed a highball glass for Grey, incorporating references to modernist geometries and tubular metal furnishings.
A sprig of rosemary within the cocktail references the Mediterranean location of the architect’s well-known home, E-1027.
For Jain, co-founder of futurist design studio Superflux, college students Joseph Curle and Constance Thiessoz created an hourglass-shaped nosing glass that explores themes of passing time and symbolism.
A beaker for Eames, by Chiara Kocis and Chirine Samii, contains varieties that riff on covers the American designer created for Arts & Structure journal in 1943.
Carla-Marie Savaris and Noee Zahavy, in the meantime, created a hand-carved design that mixes the artisanal strategy and “fiery character” of French ceramicist and sculptor Schlegel.
Adèle Guilbault and Lovena Vedrine created a coupe for Kenyan ceramicist Odundo, which brings within the ring varieties that always function in her vases.
For Taeuber-Arp, who practised as an artist, inside designer and dancer, Luna Deleani and Zorana Mitrovic developed a wine glass that mixes the proportions of her well-known work, Dada Kopf, with a way of motion.
The gathering is accomplished with a highball glass by Camilla Hoffmeister and Hannah Mackaness, incorporating a magnifying glass to spotlight the deal with nature within the work of designer Ginsberg.
The cocktail for this glass was served with an enormous ice dice, containing a complete chilli pepper.
All seven designs had been offered within the Home of Switzerland exhibition at Milan design week, in a playful scenography that includes a mannequin practice and a speakeasy bar.
The glasses had been displayed on carriages pulled by the practice because it journeyed round a mountain, throughout which the names of many extra girls designers had been displayed.
HEAD Genève wished to supply “a small glimpse of the 1000’s of figures which were missed by historical past and to whom we owe our heritage”.
A secret door led by means of to the speakeasy bar, the place choose company had been invited to attempt the cocktails for themselves. The thought was to revisit “the illicit consumption of spirits on the time of the prohibition”.
“The set design gives a playful and political interpretation of the notion of secrecy,” mentioned HEAD Genève.
“The speakeasy is a metaphor for this pseudo-secret: girls designers matter!”
The Home of Switzerland exhibition additionally included a present of playful works by ÉCAL college students, created following a “junkyard diving” workshop with designer Philippe Malouin.
The pictures is by Raphael Lugassy and Raphaëlle Mueller.
