PVC HANDBLOWING PROJECT

Japanese designer Kodai Iwamoto uses glass-blowing techniques to remodel plastic pipes into vases.

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

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PVC pipe are easily available at local DIY stores. By applying air pressure into a pipe, which was warmed by a heater to make it soft, my flower vase was born. As with glass blowing, many factors such as the shape of the mould, and the speed of heating the pipe's surface ,affect the shape of it.

“What will be happen if an old manufacturing process meets cheap and mass-produced material?” This project came about as a result of my curiosity with the above question. Plastic pipes, basically used for distributing water, are easily available at

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About Kodai Iwamoto Design

Kodai Iwamoto (born in Kagoshima, Japan) starts his study of product design at Kobe Design University in Japan. After the study in Kobe, he then moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he lived for 2 years to gain practical skills at master course in ECALÉcole cantonale d'art de Lausanne ). After life in Lausanne, he moved his base to Tokyo and has been actively working with some furniture brands both in Japan and abroad.

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