AN ARCHIVE FOR MODERN GLASS

6:AM and Bricklab collaboratively merge their backgrounds offering a blend of cultural exploration and innovative design.

Founded in Milan in 2018, the design brand 6:AM blends traditional artisanal methods with contemporary design, resulting in distinctive and transversal glass creations.

Bricklab, established in Jeddah in 2015, is an interdisciplinary architecture studio that examines the intersection of design with social, political, economic, and cultural networks that shape our built environment. Focusing on user experience, they explore design's role in cultural development.

‘An Archive for Modern Glass’ is an illuminated 5-meter-tall column composed of a variety of glass panels. The work combines Bricklab’s ongoing research on modern development in Jeddah and 6:AM’s intimate experience with the Venetian glass industry.

The patterns, textures, and colors used in the glass panels reference Jeddah’s modernist buildings of the 1960’s – 1990’s. These common motifs are reinterpreted as contemporary design pieces crafted by Italian master artisans in Venice. The patterns are extracted from photographic surveys, digitally traced, remodeled and then cast onto the glass in a variety of processes.

6:AM reimagines these motifs, inspired by Italian design and graphic influences such as Sottsass and Mendini. The structure of the installation is a tower, reminiscent of Ignazio Gardella's design (Vittoria tower), a project that was never realized that was supposed to be built in Piazza del Duomo (Milan) in the 1930s.

Curated by Rana Beiruti, the installation is part of the Arab Design Now exhibition, exploring how local and regional designers and their partners balance contemporary design with traditional methods derived from the region’s heritage, with a particular focus on environmental concerns and sustainable design.

Arab Design Now opened on February 24 and will run during Design Doha biennial until 5 August 2024 at M7, Doha.

M7 Museum
Msheireb Downtown Doha
Abdulla Bin Thani St, Doha, Qatar

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