Floris Meydam - the Cone - Sold

About the item
Meydam designed the paperweight commissioned by the Fund for the Mentally Disabled. Meydam often used his artistic talents for social causes, and this item is a fine example of that.

"The Point" or "the Cone"
It is a sleek, conical paperweight made of pure crystal. The cone is one of Meydam's most iconic geometric forms and symbolizes focus and clarity. At the heart of the cone lies a single, perfect air bubble: a technical feat by glassblowers, and this requires—certainly in a cone—extreme precision of craftsmanship. It is therefore a masterpiece of glassblowing art and exemplary of the glass artist Meydam.
The glass has a high refractive index, causing the light to be beautifully captured at the tip.

About Floris Meydam
Meydam began at Royal Leerdam as an assistant but quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming Andries Copier's successor. His work is characterized by clean, modernist lines. Meydam created functional glass that is simultaneously aesthetically beautiful.
Meydam's work is appreciated nationally and internationally and can be found in the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the National Glass Museum (Leerdam), and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), among others. And internationally: the Museum of Modern Art.
(New York), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning (New York), Smithsonian Institution (Washington).