american designer lara knutson has developed the ‘soft glass’ vessel. the piece is made from a reflective glass fabric, which magnifies light, and has 50,000 microscopic mirror backed glass beads per square inch.
detail of the woven glass fabric
view of the illumination which occurs when light hits the microscopic mirrors
'there is no real, defined space, there’s just the reflection’ – designboom speaks with Hermès artistic directors charlotte macaux perelman and alexis fabry.