Crystal Vase, Small, Glacier
A pale ice blue, clear at the crystal tips and frosted white around the mouth, the color of glacier ice in daylight.
Grown, not cut. Isaac Monte dissolves five to seven minerals in boiling water in a large metal tank, suspends a glass form in the solution and lets the tank cool. Over the following weeks the minerals come out of the water and grow onto the glass. Nothing is glued and nothing is carved. The crystal is the object.
The color comes from which minerals went into the tank, and the texture from how fast the water gave them up. Where the surface is coarse and faceted the crystals grew slowly; where it runs fine and dense they grew fast.
About nine inches tall. The glass form the crystals grew onto is the interior of the vase, so it holds water and fresh flowers directly. The glass is fixed in place, not removable, and the crystal itself never touches water. Scaled for three to five full stems.
He sets the chemistry, the temperature and the timing. The tank decides the rest. This is the only Glacier small vase.
It goes on the dining table at the dinner you cooked for, or the entry console. For the wedding, the collector acquiring small, the friend whose apartment is full of objects and short one piece of art.
Pairs well with
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