a Soufflerie mouth-blows the Osiris in Paris, by hand, one piece at a time. The jug is named for the Egyptian god whom Plutarch credits with teaching humankind to cultivate the vine and press the grape into wine. The form is sturdy and a little ceremonial: a full body, a wide pouring spout, an angular handle marked at the back with three hand-carved lines. Like every piece in the La Soufflerie catalogue, the Osiris is mouth-blown from 100% recycled glass - bottles and broken windows folded back into the furnace and given another life. The vert fumé is the colour of recycled wine-bottle glass softened with smoke: a hazy, low-saturation green that reads almost grey in the shade and clears toward bottle-green in direct light. A jug for wine, made from the glass of wine bottles. No two are the same. The bubbles in the wall, the slight asymmetry of the spout, the thickening where the breath has rested - these are the evidence of the hand and the lung that made it. Exclusive to Australia.
