Glass Works

摘要

Exploring the synergy among glass, light and water is what SWON Design is all about. From their roots as glass blowers and neon artists, the Firm's Founders Michael Batchelor and Andrey Berezowsky have branched out to create elaborate, vivid sculptures For architectural and landscape settings that reFlect their interest in developing shapes, colors and textures that both complement and accentuate the surroundings in which they appear. All artists and designers have to come from somewhere, creatively speaking. In our case, we came to watershaping via the world of glass arts and crafts, a starting place that led us first to create unusual sculptures in glass and light — and then to carry our work out into landscapes and especially into settings that feature water. In collaborating mostly with architects and landscape architects and designers, we at SWON Design in Montreal have found what we believe to be an incredibly rich vein of aesthetic potential. Indeed, we have come through the years to recognize with greater and greater profundity that water and glass are a natural pairing: What light does with water and what light does with glass are similar in many ways.