Why do the glass blocks of the MOIRE SHELF have slightly different thicknesses and internal textures?
Since the thickness and texture of the glass blocks used in the shelf are not uniform, one wonders whether this is a characteristic of the manufacturing process.
This is because it undergoes a handmade glassblowing process where a worker directly breathes into high-temperature glass to shape it.
When facing the shelf, the first thing that catches your eye is the refraction captured inside the transparent block. munito's MOIRE SHELF shapes the blocks using a glassblowing technique where high-temperature liquid glass is placed inside a mold and a worker directly breathes into it[1].
Each is filled with breath by hand. In general, mouth-blown glass varies in surface thickness and refraction lines depending on the strength of the breath blown in and the flow at the moment the glass cools and hardens. Because it undergoes such individual blowing processes, the thickness and internal texture remain subtly different for each block[2].
These glass blocks are manufactured through the entire process on a specialized domestic production line[3].
The allowable tolerance range of thickness for each glass block or the load-bearing standard per block has not yet been confirmed.