Royal Fumé
Royal Fumé
La Soufflerie
La Soufflerie mouth-blows the Royal in Paris, by hand, one piece at a time. It is a tall, full-bellied carafe, sized to take a full bottle of wine decanted with room to breathe, or a loose handful of blooms standing tall at the centre of the table.
Like every piece in the La Soufflerie catalogue, the Royal is mouth-blown from 100% recycled glass - bottles and broken windows folded back into the furnace and given another life. The fumé is a soft, smoky grey that shifts toward translucent in direct light, and reads almost charcoal against a darker surface. No two are the same. The bubbles in the wall, the slight asymmetry of the neck, the thickening where the breath has rested — these are the evidence of the hand and the lung that made it.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
Height 22cm
Every La Soufflerie piece is mouth-blown by hand, freehand, in Paris. No two are identical. Sizes will vary by a centimetre or two from piece to piece. The glass itself carries the marks of how it was made - a bubble caught in the wall, a small black speck from the cullet, a faint asymmetry where the breath rested, the slight irregularity of a colour folded into the furnace by hand. On the base of every piece, you will feel the pontil mark left by the glassblower's cane: the small scar of a glass that was blown freehand, not pressed in a mould. These are not imperfections. They are the evidence.
About La Soufflerie
La Soufflerie has been blowing glass in Paris since 2009 - the year Valentina and Sébastien Nobile set out to revive a craft that had almost disappeared from the city, with fewer than five professional glassblowers left in the Paris region. They began with four vases, made from recycled glass, loaded onto their bicycles and sold to Parisian flower shops. They sold out in a day.
Every piece is still mouth-blown by hand, from recycled glass - bottles and broken windows given another life. The forms are classical Parisian: apothecary bottles, carafes, oil cruets, pitchers. No two are identical, and the small irregularities are part of the record.
Exclusive to Australia.
Product care
The glass will survive a dishwasher when you need it to. But it prefers warm water and a soft cloth at the sink - that is how the surface stays clear, how the small scratches a dishwasher eventually leaves are avoided, and how the piece lasts.
