Dana Arbib’s first glassware collection is both a continuation of family history and a reflection of our pandemic-affected moment. The designer visited Venice for the first time in 2020. “As soon as Italian nationals were allowed in, I was like, ‘I’m going’,” she says. “I went and it was empty. There was no one on the street, the water was crystal clear.” (Remember the “nature is healing” videos of canal-swimming dolphins that took over the Internet in the early pandemic days? Those weren’t real, but the water around the city was uncharacteristically clean.) Arbib was there to work with artisans in Murano, and when she took a boat to the island, she marveled at the shades of green and blue, as well as the feathery seaweed, visible below. The lagoon waters became the inspiration for the glass vessels she created, which have names like “Onde” (Waves), and “Marimo” (Algae ball). In varied greens and dusky oranges with bubbled surfaces and organic curves, the pieces would be equally at home under the sea as they are in an artful human home.
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