La Soufflerie mouth-blows the Amour in Paris, by hand, one piece at a time. The form was commissioned by Hôtel Amour, the Paris hotel that gave the bottle its name: an oval body with a short rolled neck and rim, made in two versions - avec anse (with a handle) and sans anse (without one). The handle is applied separately: a second length of molten glass laid against the body while it is still warm, then fused by hand. Like every piece in the La Soufflerie catalogue, the Amour is mouth-blown from 100% recycled glass - bottles and broken windows folded back into the furnace and given another life. The olive is a soft, muted green that shifts toward grey in low light, and comes from the colour of the bottles themselves. The Avec Anse pours balsamic at the table as easily as it holds a single stem on the windowsill. No two are the same. The bubbles in the wall, the slight asymmetry of the neck, the thickening where the breath has rested - these are the evidence of the hand and the lung that made it. Exclusive to Australia.
