NUDE

NUDE is the contemporary glassware brand created by Şişecam in 2014 and based in Istanbul, set up to give the Turkish glass group a design-led label rather than a manufacturing one. Its premise is stated as a subtraction: simple is beautiful, form is best when it meets function, and everything that does not serve the object is removed.

The material is lead-free crystalline glass, whose mineral content makes thin, durable walls possible while catching light and adding resonance to what is poured into it, and much of the production is still blown or press-blown by hand by a pool of some 350 master blowers. Collections such as Stem Zero, Juno and Mars are developed with international designers, and the brand draws on a glass tradition that Şişecam has carried since its founding in 1935.