Vase. Teardrop
Vase. Teardrop
Louisa Raven
Available in Straw + Sea
Formed from the inherent qualities of liquid glass, this piece embraces simplicity at its most poetic. A heated bubble is allowed to fall under gravity, gathering naturally into a soft teardrop silhouette — a shape defined not by force, but by surrender. It is elemental and quietly beautiful, holding within it the memory of heat and movement.
Striking as a sculptural object in its own right, it also lends itself to the gentlest styling — a single stem of blossom, a few foraged grasses, something seasonal and fleeting.
Height ranges from approximately 15–18cm, with each piece free-blown in hot glass. Variations in proportion and contour are part of its character. You may notice a small bubble, a tool trace, or the melted pontil mark on the base — honest hallmarks of handmade studio glass, and of the human hand.
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.
