Designed in 1968, the Bolle Bottles represent one of the most considered collaborations between Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala and the master glass-workers of Venini on the island of Murano. Each bottle in the series is made using the incalmo technique, a demanding process in which two separately blown glass sections are joined at the furnace to form a single, unified vessel. The result is a form where distinct color fields meet with absolute precision, bands of red, green, blue, and gray held in quiet tension within one gently curving silhouette. Handblown Murano glass using the incalmo fusing technique Designed by Tapio Wirkkala for Venini in 1968 Available as a series of five vessels in varying color combinations Each piece is an individual handcrafted object with natural variation Wirkkala brought to Venini a Scandinavian sensitivity for organic form and material restraint. The Bolle series reflects that sensibility: bottles that read as sculpture first, object second.
