Trend alert! When it comes to home decor trends, Devyn Ormsby’s glass fruit sculptures are hyped for good reason. A homage to tacky plastic fruit (the kind your grandma might be sporting in her living room), these sculptures are made of translucent glass in a single block of color – an ironic, yet magnificent twist on nostalgic inheritance.

“Fruit holds a large significance in art history, which is where I think the appeal comes from,” said the young designer and sculptor in an interview with Homestyle. “I’d thought for a while about what I wanted to make and kept seeing vintage glass fruit in op shops. Brightly colored with exaggerated forms, it was charming in its own outdated kind of way; I wondered where it came from, what its purpose was and who used to own it. Eventually, I set about making a cast-glass version true to the form of actual fruit.”

The glass fruit include realistic interpretations of bananas, pears, lemons, and mandarins, in bright appealing colors like lime green and baby blue. The pieces were created by using silicone rubber and plaster molds around real pieces of fruit. The contour mold is then dried and loaded into a kiln to be fired. Ormsby explains that over time, solid glass gradually melts into the positive space filling a positive form. The contour mold can be broken off revealing a glass object. This then is cold worked, sanded and polished, after which she is left with the finished piece.

We’re dying to get a complete set to showcase in our living room!

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Trend alert! When it comes to home decor trends, Devyn Ormsby’s glass fruit sculptures are hyped for good reason. A homage to tacky plastic fruit (the kind your grandma might be sporting in her living room), these sculptures are made of translucent glass in a single block of color – an ironic, yet magnificent twist on nostalgic inheritance.

“Fruit holds a large significance in art history, which is where I think the appeal comes from,” said the young designer and sculptor in an interview with Homestyle. “I’d thought for a while about what I wanted to make and kept seeing vintage glass fruit in op shops. Brightly colored with exaggerated forms, it was charming in its own outdated kind of way; I wondered where it came from, what its purpose was and who used to own it. Eventually, I set about making a cast-glass version true to the form of actual fruit.”

The glass fruit include realistic interpretations of bananas, pears, lemons, and mandarins, in bright appealing colors like lime green and baby blue. The pieces were created by using silicone rubber and plaster molds around real pieces of fruit. The contour mold is then dried and loaded into a kiln to be fired. Ormsby explains that over time, solid glass gradually melts into the positive space filling a positive form. The contour mold can be broken off revealing a glass object. This then is cold worked, sanded and polished, after which she is left with the finished piece.

We’re dying to get a complete set to showcase in our living room!

The post We’re Dying to Sink Out Teeth Into These Glass Fruit Sculptures appeared first on toppoptoday.com.