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London Design Festival 2013: London product designer and co-founder of OKAYstudio Mathias Hahn has designed a range of opaline glassware.

Mathias Hahn‘s new Louche glassware collection features an opaque white water bottle with a grey stopper, a tall mint-green glass beaker and a small transparent beaker with a green lid.

Hahn said that this experimental glassware range aimed to expose opaline or opaque glass qualities to a younger and contemporary audience.

The glassware has different grades of opacity that are created by hand-blowing opaline glass into changing wall thicknesses. “By using a subtle set of monochrome colours, the often very decorative use of opaque glass is transferred into refined and plain objects,” explained Hahn.

“The louche [name] describes a very similar visual condition, when spirits such as absinthe or pastis turn from clear to cloudy when adding water,” Hahn said.

Mathias Hahn started his own design studio in 2006 and is one of the founding members of design collective OKAYstudio. The Louche glassware will be on display until 22 September as part of OKAYstudio’s Loose Thread exhibition at Ben Sherman’s Modular Blanc exhibition space in London at 108 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LZ.

Other projects by Hahn’s that we’ve featured on Dezeen include a set of mirrors with wooden handles that swivel up and down and a collection of coloured glass vessels that feature concrete, brass and metal. See all our coverage on Mathias Hahn »

Other ceramics featured on Dezeen recently include a new collection of bone china plates with a sandy texture and a small ceramic pendant that bounces light off of large steel bowls.

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Photographs are courtesy of the designer.

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Product news: these mirrors by London designer Mathias Hahn can be swivelled up and down with wooden handles sticking out the sides.

Mathias Hahn combined a classic hand mirror with a slim stand to create the Me mirror, which comes as a tall, freestanding design or a small tabletop version.

They’re available in a range of colours and are now in production with Swedish homeware brand Asplund.

We previously featured Hahn’s collection of coloured glass vessels inspired by making jam and a pendant lamp that clamps to its own flex, plus he discussed five examples of his work in a movie we filmed in Cologne in 2011 – see all designs by Mathias Hahn.

We also recently published a matte steel sink with a polished patch that acts as a looking glass and a mirror and vanity box that hang off a leather strap – see all mirrors.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Me mirror

A classic hand mirror held by a wooden handle. Being attached to a stand the mirror can be rotated and adjusted by both the axis of the handle and the vertical section of the stand. A plain and diverse to use mirror, reminiscent of historic mirror stands, that is located in bath rooms, dressing rooms or hallways, giving this product a rather independent and furniture related feel than a wall mounted vanity mirror.

The Me mirror family consists of two different sizes: one tall, floorstanding version and a smaller one for tables or sideboards. The mirrors are now in production with Swedish manufacturer ASPLUND and are available in a variety of colours.

Thinking of the typology of mirrors, the usual concept is either a wall hung piece or a hand held mirror sitting in a drawer. The idea for the ‘ME’ mirrors is, to turn the tool of the mirror itself into a product which is able to move into different areas of a domestic environment. Rather being treated as a a piece of occasional furniture than a product which is linked to singular location.

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Milan 2011: Slovenian lighting brand Vertigo Bird present new lamps by designers including Mathias Hahn, Uli Budde and A + A Cooren as part of Tortona Design Week in Milan.

Hahn’s design, called Jinn, is based on the form of an oil or gas lamp, while Uli Budde’s Balloon design reflects light off a plate ballooning out of it’s cylindrical base.

A + A Cooren’s Hippo lamp can be angled by changing the position of the shade on its magnetic base.

Called Cabinet Bestiarium, the show presents the new collection in wooden cages with cut-out flora and fauna designed by Ljubljana studios Bevk Perovic Arhitekti and graphic designers Luks Lab.

The installation is on show at Opificio courtyard in Via Tortona 31 until 17 April.

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The information below is from Vertigo Bird and Bevk Perovic Arhitekti:

Vertigo Bird, a young Slovene lighting brand, is proud to present its new collection of lights during Milano Furniture Fair, at Opificio courtyard in Via Tortona 31, under a project title Cabinet Bestiarium. Cabinet Bestiarium project has been conceived by Bevk Perovic arhitekti in association with graphic designers Luks Lab, both from Ljubljana.

The new Vertigo collection, including some items from previous seasons, is ‘imprisoned’ in 4 birdcage-like objects, taking over the small space in Via Tortona 31 Opificio courtyard.

Directly inspired by the natural museum’s dioramas, each wooden ‘birdcage’ cabinet presents a series of lighting fixtures in a jungle-like setting, the natural environment of the Vertigo Bird’s Bird/Beast Chimeras, designed especially for the occasion by Luks Lab.

New lights presented during this years’ Fair include proposals by international group of designers – Mathias Hahn (Jinn table lamps), A+A Cooren (Hippo – a collection of floor, table, wall and suspension lamps), Ulli Budde (Baloon table and wall lamps) and Bevk Perovic arhitekti (Bikini ceiling lamps), as well as brand new items from Vertigo’s Naked Collection, a collection of ‘anonimous’ lighting fixtures devised by Smoke Detektors. Some of the ‘oldies’ from previous collections will also be shown, complementing the Cabinet Bestiarium setting.

JINN

Jinn is a floor and table lamp, based on the idea to create a reinterpretation of a classic decorative lamp comprising a base and lamp shade. In opposition to the traditional build of a central structure holding the shade and light source in place, Jinn is deconstructing this typology by removing the stem. The metal shade is supported by a glass piece that is mounted on top of the base. The light source itself is located in the base so that the light is reflected from the lamp shade and emits through the glass. Being reminiscent of oil or gas lamps the control for dimming and switching is positioned on the base of the lamp. Using the wheel on the side, the intensity of light can be adjusted in a very intuitive manner.

Design: Mathias Hahn
Material: glass, metal
Colours: white, warm grey

BALLOON

Balloon owes elements of its form to the typical antique oil lamps and candle holders with a reflector placed behind the flame to reflect and direct the light. Besides, the natural occurrence of what we often consider the moon to be a light source (next to e.g. fire and the sun) although it is just a reflected light from the sun, gave further stimulus to work with idea of the indirect light. LED light source is situated inside lamp´s cylindrical base. Light shines upwards and enlightens the reflector, which tilts forwards, re-directing and reflecting a diffused glimmer of light. It is available in table and wall version.

Through its simplicity and figurative character, the lamp leaves room for associations and fantasy – is it a balloon soaring into the air, a small glowing sun or an oversized light bulb?

Design: Uli Budde
Material: metal
Colours: white, yellow

HIPPO

As joyful as a hippo’s head and as playful as a magnet, Hippo is never exactly in the same position as everything in nature. Hippo is a series of lamps attached on a magnetic spindle. The rounded glass volume with the reflective metal calyx stays stable by the pull of magnetism.

Hippo is unique, friendly, poetic and full of personality with endless possibilities of arrangements in the interior space. Easy to be set and changed by the user, it possesses a sculptural and modern presence with its soft and cozy diffused light.

Available in ceiling, suspension, wall, table and floor versions, with an economic fluorescent bulb.

Design: A + A Cooren
Material: glass, metal
Colours of rosette: white, copper

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Funnel by Bevk Perovic for Vertigo Bird	Slim by Bevk Perovic for Vertigo Bird	Force Lamp by Nika Zupanc for Vertigo Bird

London designer Mathias Hahn’s Scantling lamps (see our earlier story) have been put into production with Barcelona brand Marset.

Hinged wooden arms allow for the shade to be adjustable without counterweights or springs.

The product is available as a table lamp, wall light and two floor lamps.

See Hahn’s prototypes from 2008 in our earlier story.

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The information below is from Hahn:

SCANTLING
By Mathias Hahn, 2010

A combination of basic geometric shapes and the use of wood together with metal give this range of lamps a homely appearance, at the same time as a clearly defined personality.

All of the movements of the fully rotating shade use arms and hinges, and its technical precision means that springs or counterweights are not necessary in order to maintain the selected position.

Scantling is a term used to define the size to which a piece of wood or stone is measured and cut, derived from the name of an old unit of measurement.

The interplay of the different elements used in its design gives this lamp an archetypal, almost graphic appearance.

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Lantern by Mathias Hahn for Ligne Roset	E8 table by Mathias Hahn	Scantling lamps by Mathias Hahn