Glass. Forest
Glass
Louisa Raven
Forest
Echoing the clean design language of Mid-Century Scandinavian glass, these round-bottomed drinking glasses are simple, elegant, and beautifully resolved. Their silhouette is unfussy but considered — a soft curve resting in the palm, suited to wine, juice, whisky, or water.
Handmade in lead crystal, they carry a luminous clarity and a reassuring weight. The colours are subtle and nature-led — tones that sit gently within a space rather than shout for attention. Paired together, they make a thoughtful gift, or can sit alongside the signature Fluidity Carafe as part of a cohesive table ritual.
Each glass is free-blown and therefore entirely unique. Height is approximately 8cm, though variations in size and form are part of their character. Production is intentionally small — only a handful are made each day.
A melted pontil mark rests on the base, stamped beneath with the maker’s mark: a quiet R for Raven. Small bubbles, tool marks, and shifts in colour density are honest traces of the making process — the beauty of true studio glass.
About Louisa
At MŌR we are endlessly drawn to makers who return to their craft not out of obligation, but out of longing. Louisa Raven came back to glass after more than two decades away — and the flame, it seems, was waiting for her.
There is something deeply compelling in the way she speaks of glass: the immediacy, the necessity to think on one’s feet, the faint edge of danger that turns making into performance. Heat, gravity and breath; centuries-old tools; the shaping of molten crystal through little more than skill and a pad of wet newspaper. It feels elemental. Honest.
What moves us most is her commitment to material integrity. Louisa works exclusively with 100% recycled crystal — reclaimed waste from factories such as Dartington Crystal, Waterford Crystal and Cumbria Crystal — giving new life to what would otherwise be discarded. In a world of single-use excess, her pieces are made to be kept, held, and treasured.
This is glassmaking as ritual: energy transformed into permanence, fragility forged into heirloom.
