Frida | Stacking Vessel in diamond cut glass
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- $1,040.00 USD
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- $1,040.00 USD
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There's a moment when you place Frida on a shelf and realize it's doing something rare: it holds the room without trying to. Not because it's loud, but because it's genuinely, quietly beautiful.
Frida is a stacking vessel — a glass body topped with a turned Curly Birch bowl — made by Utopia & Utility, a studio that designs in Finland and makes across Europe. The concept is simple. The execution is anything but.
The glass is mouth-blown in a wooden mould by Czech glassblowers working with techniques that go back generations. Then, still raw, it goes to the diamond wheel — a cold-working process where each facet is cut by hand, one by one, catching light from every direction. The result is a surface that shifts as you move around it: sometimes crystal-clear, sometimes amber-warm, sometimes almost molten.
The Curly Birch lid comes from Finland, where it's hand-turned in a small workshop. Curly Birch — also called Flamed Birch — is rare. The figured grain only appears in a small percentage of trees, caused by irregular growth that creates a wavy, almost three-dimensional pattern in the wood. No two pieces look exactly alike.
The two parts come together in a North German workshop where every component is fitted and finished by hand. Together they stack into a single composed object. Separately, the glass becomes a vase, the wood a small sculptural bowl.
It's functional without being merely functional. Decorative without being merely decorative. Made for people who know the difference.
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