Gather Catalogue SS24

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Hot glass design Studio

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EVERY PIECE IS DESIGNED AND MADE BY HAND IN OUR LONDON GLASSBLOWING STUDIO

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Catalogue ABOUT Gather / page 04

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MIAMI COLLECTION / page 06

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VERONA & SICILY VASES / page 32

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BESPOKE PRODUCTION / page 38

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SELECTED CLIENTS / page 40

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Who we are & what we do

Our contemporary tableware

Our made-to-order collections

How we work for clients

A look at some client projects

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About

Gather makes glass for bold, joyful gatherings, marrying contemporary colour and traditional craftsmanship. Every piece is designed by Phoebe Stubbs and handmade by her and her talented team of glass artisans in Gather’s London glassblowing studio.

How it was founded Gather was born in the depths of the pandemic. For the first time in over a decade, Phoebe wasn’t able to make glass and deeply missed the craft. This longing, combined with a desire to reconnect with friends over the table, led to Gather’s first collection: jugs and vessels celebrating the tableware in Dutch Still Life paintings, but rendered in the colours of gummy sweets.

Why Gather?

Gathering in glassblowing means taking molten glass from the furnace on a blowing iron, the foundational, essential move of every piece. After 16 years making glass, it’s still thrilling to extract a warm, glowing mass of glass from the furnace.

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We hope our excitement is carried to your tabletops, with our vibrant glassware at the heart of all your gatherings.

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Future-proofing our craft Glassblowing is an increasingly unsustainable artform, because of its expense, its long and difficult training, and use of fossil fuels. Sustainability for us means ensuring our business helps this beautiful craft evolve and live on.

“I love and deeply respect historical glassware, but bold colour excites me.

Bright blue takes me to my childhood spent in warmer climates: sunshine, a soft blue pool liner, acid astroturf, fluorescent sunscreen on our noses. Orangey red conjures cartoons and colouring books; a citrus yellow, the joy of melting sweeties.”

The studio runs on a large electric furnace – our commitment to reducing our use of fossil fuels. We also have two small electric furnaces for melting our waste glass and recycling it by tinting it with colours for new products. We use a double ended reheating furnace, designed to significantly reduce our gas consumption, by making two workstations from one.

We are committed to training the junior members of the team to be become not just great glassmakers and team-members, but brilliant caretakers of the craft. In their hands its future will thrive.

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Collections

MIAMI TABLEWARE

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Our bold, spirit-lifting glassware

Inspired by the city’s Deco architecture and bright sunshine

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Medium Jugs 24 x 14 x 14 cm

DEEP PINK

BRIGHT ORANGE

with blush handle & pale pink lip

with blush handle & pale pink lip

SKU: MMJ002

SKU: MMJ003

RRP: £280

RRP: £280

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Miami Medium Jug

Miami Medium Jug

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Miami Collection

FLUORESCENT YELLOW

LIME GREEN

OCEAN BLUE

with pale green handle & celadon lip

with soft green handle & celadon lip

with soft blue handle & neon lip

SKU: MMJ001

SKU: MMJ005

SKU: MMJ004

RRP: £280

RRP: £280

RRP: £280

Miami Medium Jug

Miami Medium Jug

Miami Medium Jug

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Small Jugs 15 x 10 x 10 cm

RED

OPAQUE ORANGE

with hot pink handle & pale pink lip

with pink handle & pale pink lip

SKU: MSJ002

SKU: MSJ003

RRP: £165

RRP: £165

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Miami Small Jug

Miami Small Jug

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Miami Collection

MARIGOLD

APPLE GREEN

SOFT BLUE

with gold handle & celadon lip

with lime green handle & celadon lip

with aqua blue handle & neon lip

SKU: MSJ001

SKU: MSJ005

SKU: MSJ004

RRP: £165

RRP: £165

RRP: £165

Miami Small Jug

Miami Small Jug

Miami Small Jug

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Wine Glasses approx 16 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm

ORANGE WAVE

THREE GREENS

with orange wave, pink ball and blue foot

with pale sphere, lime cylinder and green foot

SKU: MW002

SKU: MW003

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

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Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

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PINK DISC

PALE WAVE

PINK DIAMOND

with yellow stem, pink disc and apple green foot

with butter yellow wave, orange ball and blush foot

with orange sphere, pink diamond and blue foot

SKU: MW008

SKU: MW009

SKU: MW006

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

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Wine Glasses approx 16 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm

PALE STACK

APPLE DIAMOND

with pale green ball, blush cylinder and green foot

with apple diamond, gold ball and pink foot

SKU: MW007

SKU: MW010

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

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Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

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TURQUOISE SQUEEZE

AQUA DISC

YELLOW CYLINDER

with pale green avolio, lime ball and turquoise foot

with pale green stem, aqua disc and lime green foot

with pink diamond, yellow cylinder and orange foot

SKU: MW005

SKU: MW004

SKU: MW001

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

RRP: £150

Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

Miami Wine Glass

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Tumblers 10 x 8 .5 x 8.5 cm

MANDARIN

Miami Pastel Tumblers SKU: MPT001 RRP: £60

NEON

ROSE

COOL MINT

SKU: MPT002

SKU: MPT003

SKU: MPT004

RRP: £60

RRP: £60

RRP: £60

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Miami Pastel Tumblers

Miami Pastel Tumblers

Miami Pastel Tumblers

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ORANGE

Miami bright tumblers SKU: MBT001 RRP: £70

YELLOW

BLUE

PINK

SKU: MBT002

SKU: MBT003

SKU: MBT004

RRP: £70

RRP: £70

RRP: £70

Miami bright tumblers

Miami bright tumblers

Miami bright tumblers

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Martini Glasses

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14 x 12 x 12 cm

LIME & GREEN

ROSE & RED

SUNSHINE

with mixed greens stem and neon foot

with pink and orange stem and rose foot

with bright and deep yellow stem and canary foot

SKU: MM001

SKU: MM002

SKU: MM003

RRP: £260

RRP: £260

RRP: £260

Miami Martini Glass

Miami Martini Glass

Miami Martini Glass

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Ice cream Coupes

SOFT BLUE

LILAC

ORANGE

with greens in the stem and a green foot

with an orange and pink stem and a blue foot

with a pink and yellow stem and an orange foot

SKU: MIC001

SKU: MIC002

SKU: MIC 003

RRP: £260

RRP: £260

RRP: £260

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Miami Ice-cream Coupe

Miami Ice-cream Coupe

Miami Ice-cream Coupe

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Sweeties

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ROSE

Miami Sweetie Glass Pear green body, diamond green stem and a blue foot SKU: MS001 RRP: £130

PEAR GREEN

VIOLET

COOL MINT

Pear green body, diamond green stem and a blue foot

Violet body, pale orange ball and rose foot

Cool blue body, pale green diamond and neon foot

SKU: MS002

SKU: MS003

SKU: MS004

RRP: £130

RRP: £130

RRP: £130

Miami Sweetie Glass

Miami Sweetie Glass

Miami Sweetie Glass

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Fruit Platters

MANDARIN

ROSE

with an orange and soft green stem and apple foot

with an orange and pink stem and mandarin foot

SKU: MFP001

SKU: MFP002

RRP: £730

RRP: £730

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Miami Fruit Platter

Miami Fruit Platter

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Wine Coolers

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Miami Collection

BLUSH

GLASS GREEN

with orange and pink handles

with orange and pink handles

SKU: MWC001

SKU: MWC002

RRP: £620

RRP: £620

Miami Wine Cooler

Miami Wine Cooler

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Footed vases

SOFT BLUE

HOT PINK

with a green diamond and apple green foot

with yellow sphere and mandarin foot

SKU: MFV001

SKU: MFV001

RRP: £495

RRP: £495

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Miami Footed Vase

Miami Footed Vase

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Tall Jugs

BRIGHT ORANGE

HOT PINK

with a pale pink handle and turquoise lip

with a gold handle and turquoise lip

SKU: MTJ001

SKU: MTJ002

RRP: £440

RRP: £440

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Miami Tall Jugs

Miami Tall Jugs

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MADE TO ORDER COLLECTIBL DESIGN

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Verona Vases

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Verona Vases

Available in a variety of colours, made to order The Verona Vases are a wide-necked, exaggerated take on a classic Venini vase from the 1920s called the Veronese, but with exaggerated shapes, bold colour, and just a formal nod to history.

I was drawn to this form because the Veronese vase is ubiquitous among students learning American/ Italian styles of glassblowing. Its form was brought to the US by ex-factory glassblowers leaving Murano to share their skills with the budding American Art Glass movement in the 1970s. Venini’s Veronese was one of the company’s earliest and most recognisable products. Designed by Vittorio Zecchin in the 1920s, its form and name are borrowed from a famous Venetian painting by Veronese of the Annunciation of Mary, in which the vase functions as a symbol of her body as an empty vessel.

And while the vase is now, thanks to Venini, almost synonymous with a Venetian glass design history, Veronese actually made the painting for a Spanish king, and similar shaped glass vessels were found in Spain and northern Europe – a great example of the complex crossing of cultures in glass design history.

My design’s boldness is from fond memories of a trip to Verona with a friend aged 18. We bought ‘kilometrico’ train tickets and backpacked around Italy, falling for the ‘home’ of Romeo and Juliet, and going to the opera for the very first time. My appreciation of exaggeration and grand performances were changed forever.

Large

55 x 28 x 28 cm RRP: £2650

Medium

46 x 22 x 22 cm RRP: £1950 Contact us via email to enquire about bespoke colours. phoebe@gather.glass

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Sicily Vases The symbol of Sicily is a three legged head with snakes for hair, called the Trinacria. My memory of Sicily is the intense heat. Sunshine that feels like it bakes you to your insides, not unlike the heat of the glass studio. The sunshine, and the little stone Medusa-like heads everywhere have stuck in my mind.

I love making handles, and the trial and error period of judging heat creates a few snake-like accidents when learning. A handle has to go on as a fluid blob, then be coaxed into an arc of the desired shape in the seconds it takes for the glass to solidify. A bit like playing an instrument wrongly, a semi-collapsed handle is a mistake that’s hard to recreate once you’re proficient. So that was the challenge – snake-like handles, set in a wiggly position just in time for the glass to cool. I think of them as an ode to skill development, and an offering to the sunshine Gods (to ease off a bit in the summer and cool the studio down!).

Green

28 x 18 x 18 cm RRP: £1750

Yellow

28 x 18 x 18 cm RRP: £1850

Blue

32 x 18 x 18 cm RRP: £1800

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Contact us via email to enquire about bespoke colours. phoebe@gather.glass

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Production glassware

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We make glassware and lighting for discerning clients

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Enquiries

info@gather.glass

Our state of the art glassblowing studio and skilled team make us well placed to produce small to medium batches of glassware for designers and brands. We offer a full production service, from development to delivery.

We’ve worked on some wonderful projects, making everything from tumblers to ten arm chandeliers.

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How we work with clients Development We begin working with a client by having a meeting or phone discussion, which generally leads to a development day. For this, we receive designs/mood boards ahead of time, and give a round of feasibility feedback. On the day, we produce several pieces or versions of pieces, testing process, scale, form and colours. This process enables us to understand costs and MOQ requirements.

Production We have an 8-10 week lead time for production projects. We’ll keep the client updated on progress. We ship glass to any location around the world. Some complex projects may take longer, but we will advise of lead time at the point of ordering. Shipping is additional.

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Clockwise from lower left: Conran tumbler, Vaiselle Boutique Candy stripe vase, Henry Holland Studio tumbler collection, Henry Holland Studio Palm Tumbler

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Selected client projects:

The Conran Shop

The Lamp Factory

Henry Holland Studio

Cane striped tumblers

Various lighting

Tableware

We worked with The Conran Shop to develop and produce a new, bespoke set of tumblers, using waved cane techniques and a contrasting lip wrap.

The canes are manipulated hot to give an organic feel, and this ensures that each glass is unique.

Phoebe has worked with The Lamp Factory since 2019 to produce lighting pieces to precise drawings and colour references.

These have ranged from large, pulegoso lobby lights for 180 Strand, to cane globes for ten-arm chandeliers for various Soho House members clubs, and intimate wall lights for The Ned, Doha.

We worked closely with Henry Holland Studio to develop and produce their contemporary glassware collection. To date we produce 6 variations of tumblers, and 5 colourways of stemmed wine glasses, in colours to match the studio’s unique ceramics.

Vaiselle Boutique

Soho Home

Assieds-Toii

Large vases

Various tableware

Vases and Ashtrays

We have created two highly unique collections of Vaiselle Boutique glass vases, based on beautiful sketches. The process involved interpreting the sketches in glass, and then producing product to order for the designer’s clients.

We have developed two exciting drinking glasses for the well known brand, as well as a large and technically challenging jug for SS24. The pieces will be a new development for the brand, who are working with us to create more unique, unusual pieces for their discerning customers.

We developed a series of heavy, organic vases loosely inspired by forms of mushrooms for this contemporary furniture and homeware brand. Alongside these, we created three marbled ashtrays in complementary colourways. We produce these in small batches to order.

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“We love working with clients to develop their ideas in glass. It’s always a fun challenge to work with new design teams, learning to interpret each other’s ways of working and design languages.

The work often poses a fascinating technical challenge, creating pieces that at first we think are impossible, but through the development process produce innovative techniques and force us to finesse our production processes on the fly.”

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Interested to learn more?

Contact us: info@gather.glass www.gather.glass @gather.glass