Washed away…
For the 2011 London Design Festival, DesignMarketo created ‘Bar Alto’ -a pop up bar referring to Milan’s famous Bar-Basso. Bar Alto serves a variety of specially selected brews and cocktails all in one classic glass -the Duralex Picardie 25cl. DesignMarketo asked us to customise ten of their glasses…
Resembling old glass pieces found washed away by the sea shore -soft, round and carrying fragments of stories… This series of Duralex glasses are washed away by sand. Striped from their natural context and identity they are like a soft ghost of the icon one knows; wearing a new and softer skin -less defined and more precious.