#glassblowing

#glassblowing

The last time he'd visited the store was in 2018, when Derian first invited him to New York after encountering his work at an ornament fair in Frankfurt, Germany, on a tip from a Martha Stewart staffer.

In 2021, when squiggles and wiggles took over the home design landscape, glassware was no exception: Zigzagging stems and wobbly silhouettes became regular fixtures on Instagram tablescapes that wholeheartedly embraced whimsy. More recently, the trend has leaned even more surreal, even into the grotesque. Now, more and more glassware looks like it's melting, dripping, or wilting into the surface of whatever table it's perched upon.