Marimekko Launches the Rain-Inspired Syksy Glassware Series

Each time Finnish design home Marimekko unveils one thing new, we all know it’s going to be good. This month, they’re increasing upon the model’s desk setting class with the addition of the Syksy glass assortment. In collaboration with Swedish designer Matti Klenell, the Syksy (autumn) sequence explores nature and climate phenomena – particularly rain. The theme is a recurring one in Marimekko’s prints, and Klenell has remodeled it right into a mouth-blown tumbler, goblet, and carafe sequence.

“Marimekko is a world main producer of prints in each vogue and inside design, so when being requested to collaborate with this nice Finnish establishment it felt pure to deal with patterns, and specifically the interplay of two-dimensional ornaments and three-dimensional form,” shared Klenell. “The Syksy sequence brings a contact of silent calm, even perhaps a little bit of melancholy, that give the gadgets an attention-grabbing distinctive expression.”

The glass assortment brings collectively purposeful shapes with a drawn sample impressed by the Nordic autumn rain, displaying interpretations of a mild drizzle and a drenching downpour. It’s refined and nuanced, with an natural, reduction model sample that’s utilized to the glassware in a sketched method, typical to Klenell’s work. These items are as stunning as they’re sensible, and could be stacked and combined with different Marimekko tableware.

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“We’re increasing our class for desk setting with a very new glass sequence, which brings a way of lightness to our already wealthy assortment. Matti Klenell’s private contact could be seen within the skill to mix form and sample right into a purposeful entity and part of on a regular basis tableware. The Syksy glass sequence brings a breath of recent autumn rain into Marimekko’s world of nuanced print, form and shade,” says Minna Kemell-Kutvonen, Design Director, House & Print Design at Marimekko.

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Goblet

Goblet

Tumblers

Tumblers

Carafe

To be taught extra in regards to the Syksy assortment, go to marimekko.com.

Kelly Beall is Director of Branded Content material at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based author and designer has had a deep love of artwork and design for so long as she will bear in mind, from Style Plates to MoMA and much past. When not looking for the visible arts, she’s seemingly sharing her favourite finds with others. Kelly can be discovered monitoring down new music, educating herself to play the ukulele, or on the sofa together with her three pets – Bebe, Rainey, and Remy. Discover her @designcrush on social.