Lankinen graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 2004, with a focus on furniture and interior design, but a segue into glass should come as no surprise. "I am a designer, no matter what the material," she says, and in fact the flute design started out as a lamp.
Well into the prototype lighting fixture's design in plastic, Lankinen began wondering how the design would work in glass. Slowly the drawings of the pinched form morphed into an elongated-hourglass shape and the glass flute was born. The vessel sat well in the hand and its subtle reference to the passage of time imbued the design with a romantic sentimentality.
The Tiimalasi-shamppanjalasi, as it is known in Finnish, features a clear conical bowl with a solid foot encasing a flash of colored glass, and is available through the Design Forum Shop (where Lankinen was the March Designer of the Month), for 67.00€.
Design Forum Shop
Erottajankatu 7, 00130 Helsinki
www.designforum.fi
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