„I only realized that the double-liter-bottle is an Austrian specialty that is also full of many feelings, memories and associations when it is empty, when it came to sacrifice them to the EU-norms. My eye became sharper at this experience; my love for the shape of bottles came alive.
With my vases series I cited bottle-forms that should display special sorts, regions and cultures of wine. Who doesn’t associate German white wine with the classic Bouteille, a French red wine with the burgundy bottle? Similar to how the “DJ” uses what he has for music, the “Found Footage Genre” for films, I combine form-cites. These ones emphasize the differences of wine culture as a series. The vases that have been produced in a real glass house are not only as irregular as their icons, they also display their branding on the ground, just as real wine bottles do: regulation-marks or an officially estate wine culture. This makes the vases Apollonian fragments of dionysic enjoyments.
My work as a designer didn’t consist of the creation of a new design out of nothing, but in emphasizing already known things with new light, with a different usage, and to fill them with new meaning. With the vases series I want people to focus on important aspects of European everyday life. The single forms communicate with each other in the series; they open a context for each other. I do not re-design a form completely, but with a little change in cognition and interpretation by the viewer.”Franz Maurer
The dimensions of the vases are diameters between 7.5 to 13 cm and heights between 18 and 27 cm.
Franz Maurer was born in 1963 in Vienna. After graduating from the polytechnic Mödling, Austria, in interior design and an apprentice as a cabinet maker, Franz Maurer works freelancing in furniture, lamp and product design in Vienna. Designer Franz Maurer
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H: 27 cm, weight: 5 kg, material: glass, edges polished, colour: Multicoloured Nr. 102109, EAN 4250298707884 Country of origin: Germany |
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