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The New Bohemian Glass of Anna Torfs
Baby Moon by Anna Torfs seems like a piece of freshly poured mineral water, frozen in time. Anna was trained as an interior designer and that almost architectural influence comes through in her designs, which cleverly combines the fluid qualities of mouth blown glass with the rigidity of the grinding and polishing process, juxtaposing sharp lines against soft curves, and the colors of the inner core against transparent crystal.
After her studies of interior architecture at the St
Lukas School for architecture in Brussels, Anna Torfs came to Prague in
1991 for a postgraduate course in stage design. Being much more
fascinated by the richness of Czech craftsmanship than the local
contemporary theater scene she decided to follow a different path.
Since 1994 Anna Torfs has been working from the Czech Republic as a
freelance designer realizing mainly furniture and decorative glass
collections for several European as well as Czech companies. In August
2002 the time had come to launch her own collection, this is when the
"Anna Torfs" collection was founded.
I really like her work, and I would love to learn similar glass-blowing techniques. I find that I'm not very inspired by extremely ornate works, and I also really love when glass is cut and almost carved out, then polished into very simple but strong shapes.
[via w3sh magazine]
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