BABLED. SELECTED WORKS
Finding roots in Italian craftsmanship The following projects are limited editions and customized pieces.
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Emmanuel Babled
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Origin
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Osmosi / vase and complement
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Black Sheep
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Osmosi Light
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Sunshare
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Pyros
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Quark Plexiglass
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Quark Marble
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Quark Bronze
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Quark Wood
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Quark Copper
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Etnastone
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Breeze
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Stepp
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Seaform
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Digit Light
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Omega
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Digit Table
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Simbiosi
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Digit Lighting Installation
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Simbiosi Wood
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Arcana / wood and inox
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Toys / Unit, Megalit, Genetic
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Librastone
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Work in progress
emmanuel babled Emmanuel Babled creates products in collaboration
and gaining a feeling for places and social
with the highest Italian craftsmen, mixing ancient
conditions have become integral parameters in his
knowledge with cutting edge technology, allowing
work method. This approach is not only driven by
sophisticated production processes. The Italian
anthropological interest but by mental immersion,
technical heritage is being explored and revisited
leading to a creative process.
in order to propose new unexpected results.
Emmanuel Babled’s designs encompass tradition,
Emmanuel Babled’s design approach is based
modernity, sacredness, consumption, artisanal
on the idea that a good project comes about
production and sustainability. This unique mix
through direct contact and physical presence in
gives his work a contemporary, poetic and
the territory of its production. Observing materials
transcultural character.
and techniques in their authentic surroundings
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Emmanuel Babled at Venini, Murano, Venice, Italy, 2013
osmosi 2013 Osmosi is an edition of unique glass and marble
form, the matching shape is CNC (computer
pieces, marrying both materials into sculptural
numerical control) milled into the marble, creating
objects and pieces of furniture.
two unique pieces that match each other perfectly.
By combining new technology with traditional
They are separate pieces, but one has no meaning
craftsmanship in an entirely innovative way,
without the other. They fit together through
a virtual fusion is made between marble and hand-
gravity alone. Like Cinderella and the glass shoe,
blown glass. These materials are put together with
there is only one unique piece of glass that can
a precision that is only possible thanks to high-
fit into one unique piece of marble. The effect is
level digital technology.
a perfect symbiosis between materials.
The process begins with the realization of the glass. The hand-blown form is then captured by a 3-D scanner. Through the digitalization of the
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Production at Testi Group, Verona, Italy
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Vase #2 Absolute Black Belgium Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #2 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Vase #3 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Vase #2 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Production of Osmosi Complement #4 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Emmanuel Babled and the Glass Masters, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
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Complement #3 Carrara Statuario Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #6 Black Marquinia Marble and Murano Glass
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Complement #5 Exhibition Osmosi – Palazzo Franchetti, Venice 2013
osmosi light 2013 Osmosi light is a collection of numbered editions and unique pieces, marrying materials like marble and glass into sculptural pieces of lightning.
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Lamp #1 Murano Glass and Carrara Statuario Marble Numbered Edition
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Lamp #4 Murano Glass and Black Marquinia Marble Numbered Edition
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Lamp #1 - Murano Glass and Sodalite - Unique Piece Lamp #3 - Murano Glass and Grey Carnico Marble - Numbered Edition
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Murano Hand Blown Glass at Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
pyros 2016 “At the right and desired time I express my chromatic intuition which is translated by the glass masters into colorful meteorites. The most overwhelming moment of my vocation becomes true through an inexplicable synergy, a dancing gesture, when an escaping emotion results into an eternal matter.� Emmanuel Babled, 2016 Each Pyros is a unique artwork that symbolizes a unique day at VENINI, with its masters, colors and contemporary inspiration. Pyros is a limited edition, dated on the same day of its production.
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Detail Pyros 4/49
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Pyros I
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Detail Pyros 3/49
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Production of Pyros, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
quark marble 2009 The Quark series of low coffee tables blend the exploration of materials and production techniques to give birth to unique monolith tables. Quark explores prime materials such as wood and marble, in the meantime using materials like Plexiglas, Bronze, and Copper to challenge traditional methods of Italian craftsmanship and design. This is combined with the use of digital tools, whose precision gives the tables' form.
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Quark Marble – 6 elements Carrara C Marble
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Quark Marble – 4 elements Green Forest Marble
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Production of Quark Marble, Tor Art in Carrara, Italy
quark wood 2011 The Quark series of low coffee tables blend the exploration of materials and production techniques to give birth to unique monolith tables. Quark explores prime materials such as wood and marble, in the meantime using materials like Plexiglas, Bronze, and Copper to challenge traditional methods of Italian craftsmanship and design. This is combined with the use of digital tools, whose precision gives the tables’ form.
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Quark Wood – 8 elements American Walnut
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Quark Wood – 5 elements Oak
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Cabinet maker Anders Lunderskov, Milan, Italy
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Quark Wood – 3 and 6 elements American Walnut and Black Wenge
etnastone 2015 The EtnaStone collection gets its name from the eponymous volcano in Sicily. It puts in value the secular work on lavastone and ceramic in the area of Caltagirone. Emmanuel Babled testifies once again his bond with pure techniques existing only in one place. These tables are born from a union of pieces of lava colored with delicate enameling. The volcanic texture generates a unique material.
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Etnastone Coffee Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Large Coffee Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Coffee Table and Etnastone Round Table Enameled Lava Stone
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Etnastone Dining Table and GuĂŠridon Enameled Lava Stone
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Color matching at Made a Mano in Italy
stepp 2016 The Stepp Table is a unique piece among the
To reach for this lightness in design, Emmanuel
limited editions.
Babled solved the strong ecstatic and mechanic
It plays with the concept of antagonistic feelings:
challenge, by hiding a refined stainless steal
hard and steady materials as marble and granite
structure inside the granite legs making this
and the lightness and dynamics of its legs shape.
unusual design character possible.
The table's iconoclastic vision of the stone is given
One more example of Babled's playful and
by the humour and freshness of this new shape:
innovating vision, desacralysing the nobility of
four moving and skinny legs in granite support
marble by giving it a singular character.
a large tabletop in carrara statuario marble as if they are starting to dance or escape the room.
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Stepp Carrara Marble
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Production of Stepp, Testi Group, Verona, Italy
digit light 2008 These hand blown light features are precious in material and offer a reference of Pop Culture and randomness in contrast with the classical Muranese chandelier. The visual density is what makes the light peculiar yet utterly unique. The composition uses computer based technology to reach the extreme precision of the core of the light and disposition of the light's arms.
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Digit Light – Standing Version, White Lattimo and Soft Sky Blue, Digit Light Large, White Lattimo and Hazy Purple
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Digit Light – Standing Version, White Lattimo and Black
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Mirrored Acquamarine
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Light Amber
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Digit Light White Lattimo and Mirrored Warm Grey
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Glass Hand Blowing in Italy
digit table 2008 Digit Light objects playing with an unexpected composition, assembly, geometry and balance. Inspired by pop culture, the hand-crafted sculptural lighting objects using the strong contrast between the colored and mirrored parts. The effect of opacity and transparency serves to characterise the light ambience. Hand blown glass light, produced in Murano, Venice in limited edition.
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Digit Table VI Hand Blown Glass
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Digit Table V Hand Blown Glass
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Digit Table II Hand Blown Glass
digit lighting installation 2015 The Digit lighting installation is a proposal for architectural projects. The installations are designed bespoke and they can be customized for specific projects with color and finishing of the glass. The fixtures exist in different sizes and versions: suspension, standing/ floor version and a wall version that all can be combined together. The series is produced with the technical support and knowledge of Vetreria Vistosi.
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Entrance light installation – Pavillon of Art and Design (PAD), Paris, 2015
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Exhibition – Crafted – Gallery Yves Gastou, Paris, 2015
arcana 2015 The Arcana collection honors the know how of high quality cabinet making. Being inspired by the cabinet of curiosities, the furniture presents itself like a monovolume decorated by a powerful angular walnut relief. Inside it conceals a secret interior in curly maple.
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Arcana Chest / Entre-Deux American Walnut
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Arcana Chest / Bahut American Walnut
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Arcana Chest / Bahut American Walnut
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Cabinet maker Anders Lunderskov , Milan, Italy
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Arcana Inox / Stainless Steel
librastone 2014 Librastone limited-edition low tables rest on a curved base, balancing on one point. Made in Italy in white Carrara marble or brown tobacco stone, Librastone’s point of gravity is manipulated through the use of algorithmic software that allows the tabletop to obtain a perfectly horizontal position. The project is customizable in different materials following the same gravity-based principle. This is an example of how Emmanuel Babled combines new technology with traditional craft techniques to obtain unexpected, almost magical design pieces.
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Librastone model #2 Brown Tobacco Marble
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Librastone model #3 Carrara C White Marble
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Librastone model #3 Black Marquina Marble
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Exhibition – Prime matter 1 – Salone del Mobile, Palazzo Litta, Milan, 2014
origin 2014 Origin is a low table made from white Carrara marble, produced in Italy. Origin is a continuation of exploration in producing new interpretations of classical materials and techniques. The heavy stone alludes to a perception of lightness. The thin marble appears skin like, tense, tight, and curved around the structure itself. This method allows the inside to become the outside, while the outside transforms inwardly. This creates a soft hole, the navel.... the origin.
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Origin Carrara Marble
black sheep 2011 Black sheep is an edition of low coffee tables made of black Marquinia marble. The Black sheep is unique unto itself in its randomness and organic composition. The edition, suggests a visual division of the monolithic stone, and gives birth to movement, impermanence, and origin. The Black sheep is an investigation in an attempt to associate a concept and sensation used to contrast the normal identity of the material used.
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Black Sheep – 5 elements Black Marquinia Marble
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Black Sheep – 15 elements Black Marquinia Marble
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CNC milling of Black Marquina Marble, Tor Art in Carrara, Italy
sunshare 2010 Crafted from Carrara white marble, Sunshare is a testament to the forward design and technique methods practiced by Emmanuel Babled. Dense Carrara marble is strategically cut by CNC technology then hand finished in its final stages. What is left is a beautifully carved origami structure from its original organic state. Folded edges and wrapped corners give shape to this delicate chair.
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Sunshare Carrara Marble
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Production of Sunshare, CNC milling, Tor Art in Carrara, Italy
quark plexiglas 2009 Low table in plexiglas. The synthetic version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. The challenge in this version is to use a monolithic block, extremely difficult to achieve on such dimensions, to insure the stunning transparency due to the natural diffraction of the plexiglass.
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Quark Plexiglas 5 elements, h30cm
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Quark Plexiglas 7 elements, h30cm
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Production of Quark Plexiglass, CNC milling, Europlex in Belgium
quark bronze 2014 Low table in bronze. The hard metal version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. This version uses the historical knowledge highly developed in Lombardy,Italy, in bronze casting for sculpture. This gives birth to a sculptural interpretation of the quark series.
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Quark Bronze – 7 elements scratched black patina, polished and varnished
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Quark Bronze – 3 elements polished
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Quark Bronze – 8 elements scratched dark black patina, matt varnish
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Quark Bronze – 6 elements scratched dark black patina, matt varnish
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Fonderie Valtorta, Milan, Italy
quark copper 2014 Low table in copper, the warm metal version of Quark. The project Quark continues to explore materials and production techniques to give birth to monolithic tables. The distinct reflection of copper gives the object the inconfondable warm light and mirrored surface tonality.
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Quark Copper – 3 elements dark black patina, satin table top
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Quark Copper – 3 elements polished and varnished
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Exhibition – Emmanuel Babled, Limited Editions – Twenty First Gallery, New York, 2016
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Production of Qurak Copper at Ugo Valtorta’s foundry in Milan, Italy
breeze 2011 The Breeze rugs have been realized in collaboration with weavers from North India and the Italian company I+I based in Milan. Geometric abstraction is combined with the imprecise beauty of craftsmanship, the nonfigurative design aims to escape the carpet imagery, without discontinuity with tradition, but by exploring it with digital possibilities.
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Breeze I, Hand knotted Wool and Cotton Rug
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Dyeing process and hand knotting of Breeze in North India
seaform 2010 Extremely unique in the organic and fluid composition, the Seaform edition consists of glass pieces that are hand blown in Italy. Available in Aquamarine and Opal white, Seaform is the exploration into the natural beauty of glass. Emmanuel Babled explores the potential of transparency and spontaneity in the form of the glass. He believes that through the process of hand-blowing glass, the glass in the final sculpture Seaform realizes a natural, random, and luminous graciousness.
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Seaform 1 Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Seaform 11 Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Emmanuel Babled at Anfora Murano Glass Factory, Italy
omega 2014 The Omega edition is an expression of Emmanuel Babled’s creativity in procedures and coloring that leads to an extremely high level of workmanship in the Venini production. Mixing methods of ancient technique and recomposing them in the contemporary world. The Omega is a result of coordination, speed, intuition and knowledge.
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Detail Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Detail Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Omega Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Glass Hand Blowing, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
simbiosi 2012 Simbiosi presents the colors of the famous furnace combining hand blown glass in an assemblage with marble of Carrara or with black Belgian marble, applying a digital process. Designed for Venini.
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Simbiosi - 3 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Simbiosi 6 Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Simbiosi 2 Murano Hand Blown Glass Unique Piece
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Simbiosi 4 Murano Hand Blown Glass and Absolute Black Belgium Marble Unique Piece
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Glass Hand Blowing, Venini’s furnace in Murano, Italy
simbiosi wood 2015 Simbiosi presents the colors of the famous furnace Venini combining hand blown glass in an assemblage with Indonesian ebony wood and Indian rosewood applying a digital process.
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Simbiosi Wood – 3 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass and Indian Palisander Rosewood
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Simbiosi Wood – 2 elements Murano Hand Blown Glass and Indonesian Ebony Wood
toys unit / megalit / genetic 2004 Hand blown glass pieces designed for the exhibition TOYS presented in the foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, produced in Murano by Venini.
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Unit – Ring Tower II Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Unit – Lunar II Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Megalit – Hearts Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Megalit – Spring Murano Hand Blown Glass
Megalit – Wires Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Megalit – Arrows Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Poly Pod Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Poly Spot Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Body Tentacles Murano Hand Blown Glass
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Genetic – Body Holes Murano Hand Blown Glass
work in progress The following pages are presenting Emmanuel Babled's concept and signature style - a contemporary mix between high performance technological tools and traditional craft techniques.
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Emmanuel Babled Editions We are proud to deliver the finest of products. Each piece is crafted with the highest quality in materials and craftsmanship. The unique pieces varie from one another or comes in a numbered limited edition. Each piece comes with a certificate signed by the author, Emmanuel Babled. Quality of craftsmanship and reliability is what we believe in. We maintain and control the highest quality in any of our editions and keep record of every piece we produce. Our office is available for any information regarding certification and numeration. Don’t hesitate to contact us at info@babled.net regarding any information or inquiries.
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Emmanuel Babled is a registred trade mark. Our product and production is protected by the European Union law. Copyright applies to all products and service. Any reproduction or redistribution is expressly prohibited by law. Graphic Design: Anett Krase Printed by Negócios - Artes Gráficas, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2017 Photo Credits: Yves Callewaert p.62-63 Galerie Gastou p.88-89 Carlo Lavatori p.14,16-17,26-28,39-41,47-55,58,60-61,64,67-69,73,91-97,99,102-103, 107-109,111-113,121-125,129-133,137-141,151-153,173-175 Nicole Marnati p.11,20-22 Gaetano Del Mauro p.42-43 Francesco Secchi p.59 Studio Pointer p.177-187 Twenty First Gallery p.142 Venini p.9,31-35,157-161,165-169 Valentina Zanobelli p.15,100-101 We would like to express our gratitude to our numerous producers and galleries who made this work possible through these past years: Anders Lunderskov, Milan, Italy; Anfora, Venice, Italy; Europlex, Belgium; Fonderie Valtorta, Milan, Italy; I+I, Milan, Italy; Ludi Metacrilati Special, Bergamo, Italy; Made a Mano, Caltagirone, Italy; Testi Group, Verona, Italy; Tor Art s.r.l., Carrara, Italy; Venini, Venice, Italy; Galerie Yves et Victor Gastou, Paris, France; Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Galleria Nilufar, Milan, Italy; Twenty First Gallery, New York, U.S.
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Babled. Limited Edition | 2017