Small Purple 'Nagi' Mall Glass by Seiten

These ‘nagi’ style glasses were made at Glass Studio Seiten on the island of Okinawa. Variants on the studio’s ‘simple’ glass form, they are made with a deep swirling motion.  Each was made individually, by hand, and their form represents the moment in time at which they were created.   The colour tint is from the combination of recycled glass used to make them.

'Nagi' means lull in the ocean, and is the calming inspiration for the form.

They are 8cm wide, and around 6.7cm high.

The capacity is 137 ml, and the weight 216g.

As all are handmade, each piece is slightly different.

About Glass Studio Seiten

Glass of the type made at Seiten by Kiyoharu Matsuda and his team, is known as saisei glass. Saisei literally means ‘reborn’, and in glass it refers to a process to melt and recreate empty drinks bottles into beautiful forms.  Blended for texture and colour, the glass is heated from fragments, before being blown and swirled into new shapes. Saisei glass has deep connection to Okinawa’s post war history, as craftspeople used the materials they could find to create a new lineage in glass. The results today refract sunlight, and seem somehow to encapsulate it within their material.  Kiyoharu Matsuda has a history as a craftsperson in glass in studios around Okinawa, before making his own base, in Yomitan, not far from the main settlement for ceramics on the island.