Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands feature in Nouvel Limited's latest collection.
Presented at Design Miami/Basel, the pieces were part of the Mexican glass manufacturer's inaugural showing at the annual art and design fair in Switzerland.

The Magma wall light pieces are by Mexico City design studio EWE while the Precarius glass collection is by Mexican designers Héctor Esrawe and Emiliano Godoy, and Los Angeles-based designer Brian Thoreen.
Over several months, Esrawe, Godoy and Thoreen worked alongside the design team at Nouvel Limited to generate experimental large-scale pieces that take "glass design to new heights".

"The work pushed the boundaries of the factory beyond the processes they normally use to create the products in their catalogue of designer pieces," said the team at Nouvel Limited. Upright steel and brass plates are joined together by transparent blown glass vessels, which are formed around them. The pieces hold each other in a delicate balance.

The metal plates were prepared by a local metalsmith, with the objective of altering them as little as possible from their steel mill origin.
The designers' aim was to confront these materials with glass to highlight the perfection and beauty of Nouvel Limited's materials and craftsmanship.

"The selection includes pieces of unusual dimensions in the field of glass design, some of them artistic in nature, whi...