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Sunday, 11 November 2012

Tutti Fruitti Fratelli

Posted on 21:00 by Ashish Chaturvedi
Fratelli Toso made glass objects that look sweet enough to eat. The technique used to achieve the candy striped effect is called 'a canne' in Italian, which is exactly what it sounds like...the use of colored canes of glass melted to create a new form, like the delicious stopper bottle you see above.
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