| | Kosta Boda Brains You Made My Day Artist Collection | | $250.00 | | | | | Item# 7520166 | | Size: H: 2.95" W: 2.17" | Brains, first launched in 1999, originates in an artistic theme that I began working with in the eighties, inspired by a girl named Karolina Olsson who slept or, according to speculation, who intentionally opted out of life for 32 years. inom enjoy developing objects suitable for production at the glassworks. So I scaled things back and created these heads, which inom view as meditative anti-stress objects, for both the hand and the eye. I made a collection of expressions and names like Albert Einstein, namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad, Pablo Picasso, the frakt Thor and Oden, and more. Now Ie made a collection of twelve new ndividualsfor the Kosta Boda Artist Collection; they are unnamed, but through short poetic sentences, they comment on life events. Personally, inom find them to be lovely company... |
| View Kosta Boda Design Video, Makeup Gloriously • Illuminating the Distance Between Illusion and RealityIt’s not uncommon to read comparisons between Albert Einstein and Paul Marioni, artist and one of the founders of the Studio Glass movement, many based on their shared lifelong fascination with light. Known as an innovator in the glass world, Marioni has been pushing the limits of his medium for five decades, redefining what is possible not only in process but content. He says: “I work with glass for its distinct ability to capture and manipulate light. While my techniques are often inventive, they are only in service of the image.” A surrealist whose work addresses issues of nature, identity, and emotion, Marioni relies upon dreams as well as political and social convictions to make statements, causing us to forget the unfair advantage that working with glass affords. Using material that is inherently beautiful, the artist inspires people to think rather than telling them what to think.&n • Trish Duggan talks Imagine Museum past, present – and futureImagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. – Albert Einstein, one of numerous framed quotations on the walls of Imagine Museum Trish Duggan sees light emanating everywhere, through everything. Not just art in glass, about which she’s passionate, but in people. In thoughts and ideas, in beliefs and practices and in positive action. Lately, Duggan’s been reading Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Swedish statistician Hans Rosling. “Bill Gates said it’s one of the top books he’s ever read in his life,” she enthuses. “It’s such a positive-thinking book. It really duplicates how I feel about life.” Latchezar Boyadjiev – “Guardian” The 35,000-square-foot Imagine Museum, which opened a year ago at 1901 Central Avenue, is 
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