Milan 2016: designer Ini Archibong has based the coloured glass legs of his Galilee and Orion tables on mythological characters and biblical stories (+ slideshow).
The tables, which are both made from a combination of solid marble and coloured glass legs, were on show at the Salone Satellite exhibition during this year's Milan design week.

When designing the tables, Switzerland-based Archibong ? who studied his masters degree at ÉCAL ? was influenced by fantasy books he read as a child.
"The many hours of my youth spent escaping beyond the looking glass, a witness to heroic deeds and fantastical landscapes, have shaped who I am," he told Dezeen. "A common theme within fantasy stories is the escape to a world beyond."
This fantastical element is what Archibong based the pink- and blue-coloured glass table legs on, and used the colours to create a "magical experience".

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"With my desire to evoke a dreamlike experience, I decided that I had the opportunity with blown glass to create illusions of fragility, as well as using transparency and colour to create a magical experience," he said.

Although it was invented in the Roman era, coloured glass has recently seen a resurgence among designers such as Patricia Urquiola, who used iridescent glass to create a furniture series for Glas Italia last year.
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