Edinburgh Museum Visit

On the 26th November I visited the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. These were some of my favourite pieces they had on display there.

This glass was created by American glass artist Dante Marioni who is known for using traditional Venetian glass making techniques, for example, Reticello.

“Reticello is a glass blowing technique which combines canes of coloured glass in a criss-cross pattern, which are then merged together to form a grid. The process also traps a bubble of air in each square of the grid creating a complex and beautiful effect”.

From left to right – Carbon Chair by Bertjan Pot and Marcel Wanders, Full Grown chair by Gavin Munro, Fat Fresh chair by Tom Dixon. I was really interested in these chairs on display, their intricate forms got my attention. “Carbon Chair was woven by hand using carbon fibre to give a structure which is rigid, strong and light. Fat Fresh was also formed by hand, using molten plastic. The Full Grown chair is the product of years of skilled grafting and pruning”.

Vine Arm and Shoes designed for the Alternative Limb Project, 2017. “Vine Arm is a bespoke prosthetic made for Kelly Knox, a model and advocate for body positivity. The botanical tentacle is controlled by sensors fixed into the big toe of the shoes. The sensors allow the arm to curve and grip objects”. I liked this piece a lot as body positivity is something very important to me.