Cube glass vase, designed for Fogia in 2018, she evokes wonder by playing with the proportions. It is made by highly skilled glassblowers at Skruf Glassworks in Småland, Sweden.

The fact that Cube is produced by hand is clearly evident, as no two vases are completely identical. This applies not least to the way the colours appear. There is something archaic about Cube. The sense of a fleeting moment in time turned solid and eternal. This has to do with several of the vase’s aspects: its simple shape, and the glass itself, as a material, yielded from an interaction of the basic elements of fire, air, earth and water.

The designer, Carina Seth Andersson believes it might also have to do with the object category Cube belongs to: “There’s something utterly primordial about vessels as objects.” Glass is a material that Carina Seth Andersson has truly mastered. She describes it as complex: precious, yet commonplace; solid, yet liquid; fragile, yet durable. In principle, a glass object can last forever. On the other hand, it can shatter into a thousand pieces in a moment.