From the filling in the sandwich that is culture–the cheese that binds together the best of Eurasia–we bring to you a fantastic new artist that has us captivated. Turkey-based designer Bilge Nur Saltik creates vases that play hide-and-seek with light and geometry to produce a transfixing effect and make it impossible to look away. If you’ve ever skimped out on getting your mum or significant other an entire bouquet and got them a single flower instead (it’s alright, we’ve all been there), we may have found just the thing for you.
The reflective play and kaleidoscopic patterns created through refraction of light in this cleverly designed range transforms lone flowers into a magical bouquet. The Istanbul-crafted vessels use human perception to trick the eye and simultaneously delight it. Her work with illusions and angles continues with the beautiful wall lights and handmade scarf rings she designs, both as part of her ‘OP-jects’ (a portmanteau of the words ‘optical’ and ‘objects’) collection, where she amplifies the allure of symmetrical patterns through reflection. Her scarf rings that are part of her Through The Looking Glass series, do justice to their title by channelling a Lewis Carroll-like delightful fancy, bathing the silk in radiance.
The glass in all her works have been cut and assembled by hand, lending a precision and personality that is unique to her products, that were featured at Milan Design Week 2015. The personal touch in her art, along with the witty titles to her collections, make Nur Saltik’s work like no other. The luminosity captured in her pieces is artistically clever, and it is no wonder that her name ‘Nur’ is the Arabic word for light.
Watch this video and get dazzled by her light. These glass vases certainly aren’t making our eyes go glassy!
If these pieces sizzle your bacon, you can buy them at either designboom or Monologue London.
