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(Archive) Glass Spoons

A series of handblown glass spoons made from Borosilicate glass tubes

This project was part of DDW 2020
Borosilicate glass spoon by Maarten Baptist — © Maarten Baptist

Maarten Baptist always looks for logical and functional utensils that derive from the material or technology. These glass spoons are his latest result.

To craft an object, a glassblower starts with a Borosilicate glass tube. Maarten Baptist designed a series of spoons based on this technique. He asked the glassblower to blow a sphere at the end of a glass tube. After that, the object was cut in half alon

Sugar spoon, Serving spoon, Soup spoon, Saladspoon — © Maarten Baptist

The glass spoons are designed and crafted locally — © Maarten Baptist

Functional utensils derive from a glass technique — © Maarten Baptist

A set of four spoons handblown from glass tubes