The Italian glassmaker's imagination brightens everyday life with his latest collections featuring pure lines or naturalistic inspiration, enhanced by soft and luminous tones.

Ichendorf Milano's new creations herald the arrival of summer with their cheerful designs. The glass company's creative studio has reinterpreted the classic shapes of six glasses in a collection called "Tamigi," combining two contrasting colors for their cut and stem. These pieces blend the technical advantages of borosilicate glass—more resistant than traditional glass—with traditional handcrafting and flameworking techniques. This expertise dates back to the company's founding in the early 20th century in the small German town of Quadrath-Ichendorf, near Cologne. The 1950s marked a stylistic turning point, as the glassmaker updated its designs, embracing clean, minimalist forms.

Since establishing itself in Milan in 1990, Ichendorf has cultivated numerous collaborations with artists and designers. With five of them, nine collections have been created. The series begins with Margherita Rui, who pays homage to ancestral techniques and the beauty of craftsmanship: mouth-blown into a mold, the 18 "Gesti" cups are adorned with intentionally imperfect, hand-painted geometric lines that intertwine in a fluid weave. The Mediterranean hues of these unique pieces offer an infinite number of combinations. In a different style, Mario Trimarchi works with color in juxtaposed segments progressing from green to ochre, a vertical guiding line in his cups, teaspoons, serving utensils, and candlesticks, enriching the "Andalusia" collection. He has also designed new pieces for the "Rivoli" range, whose leitmotif is a stem reminiscent of bamboo.

With her "Tea" series, Marta Sansoni favors colorless glass to emphasize the comforting shapes of her teapot, with its flowing curves, and her cup, so large it can be wrapped in two hands, its handle stylized to resemble a tree or coral branch. In Alessandra Baldereschi's whimsical designs, nature takes center stage. Lavender and peach blossoms, as well as succulents in matte green, bloom on the handles of jugs and teapots, the stems of glasses, flutes, and champagne coupes, and grow inside tumblers and cups. Alongside these "Botanica" and "Desert Plants" collections, the artist has also transformed a pumpkin, a pear, and peppers into candle holders and boxes, grouped under the name "Vegetables."

Finally, it was to enhance bouquets that Lina Obregón designed the three "Boreale" vases, composed of stacked colored cylinders. The lotus flower also inspired her line of oil dispensers, which she named after the lotus flower. This beautiful collection celebrates the successful marriage of tradition, innovation, and design.

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