Vase Taka Vert Fumé
Vase Taka Vert Fumé
La Soufflerie
The vase is named for Taka, the owner of HP Deco in Tokyo, who came to the La Soufflerie workshop in Paris asking for something specific: a tall, straight-sided vase with a single hand-applied band at the neck. Taka filled his rooms with them. The shape has been part of the catalogue ever since.
The Vase Taka is mouth-blown by hand in Paris, from 100% recycled glass - bottles and broken windows folded back into the furnace and given another life. The band at the neck is applied separately: a second length of molten glass laid around the body while it is still warm, then fused by hand. No two bands sit at quite the same height, or at quite the same thickness. The vert fumé is the colour of recycled wine-bottle glass softened with smoke - a hazy, low-saturation green that reads almost grey in the shade and clears toward bottle-green in direct light.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
Height 20cm
Volume 2L
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.
