Vitrum — Johanna Seelemann

2018 — Vitrum

In the Vitrum series, Johanna Seelemann explores and celebrates the imperfections of glassmaking, creating an extraordinary series of vessels and glass tiles. Tests for large tiles through baking discarded sheet glass, adding air inclusions, were conducted. Air bubbles, which are usually regarded as faults in industrial production, were deliberately added, who included starch in the making process to ensure that as many bubbles were created as possible. A slumping, irregular vessel was encouraged as well. As a result of resetting the usual standard of glassmaking and imagining alternative applications, not fully predictable glass now becomes an innovative, especially tactile object that is unique and desirable. Seelemann collaborated with fellow designer Daniele Misso on the original Vitrum project and Seelemann is now looking for new applications for the glass, aiming to create a repeatable serial production, where no piece is the same. Importantly, the glass remains pure and can be easily recycled.

Concept, Design, Development