Chaos and Control: Drill Vases Designed with Marble and Glass
Chaos and Control: Drill Vases Designed with Marble and Glass
Stockholm's Studio EO combines handcrafted glass with discarded pieces of marble found in quarries to create colorful Drill Vases.
Described by the creator as an "improvisation exercise", Drill Vases was born after Erik Olovsson, founder of Studio EO, visited a quarry in Carrara, Italy.
Here he found small, discarded pieces of marble and began collecting stones before reworking their exterior shapes with a hammer and chisel.
These "unpredictable and chaotic" pieces of marble are then precisely drilled to create an opening from the bottom, the process for which the collection got its name.
A heavy hand-blown glass cylinder is inserted into each of these perforated openings. The cylinder is custom made to fit different sized holes by blowing into wood forms of the same size with first drilled openings.
The designer explained that some stones were quite brittle and broken during drilling, so the tricky part of the creation process is reshaping these broken pieces with a hammer to make them fit for purpose.
"The geometry of hand blown glass provides a sense of order and control compared to the spontaneity of marble," said Olovsson.
The designer chose to match the color of the glass element to the shade of the stone in some pieces, while in others he deliberately matched seemingly conflicting colors.
