Helle Mardahl, 2025
TRANSLUCENT DREAM
Collector work
DKK 21,000
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Translucent Dream is a poetic expression in hand-blown glass by Danish artist Helle Mardahl. Known for her playful, candy-colored universe, Mardahl brings her signature whimsy to this one-of-a-kind sculptural object. With its soft curves and luminous surface, the work evokes a dreamlike fragility — as if captured in the moment between liquid and solid.
Lead time: 6 weeks
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Includes a signed certificate of authenticity confirming edition and provenance.
- Artist
- Helle Mardahl
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 240 x 350 x 600 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
Materials & making
Mouth-blown glass
Glass is made in minutes and cooled for hours. Molten at over a thousand degrees, it is gathered, blown and shaped while it moves, a material that records the breath and timing of the person making it. No two pieces cool exactly alike.
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 240 x 350 x 600 mm.
- Edition
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
01
Gathering
Molten glass is gathered from the furnace onto a blowing iron at working temperature.
02
Blowing and shaping
The glassblower inflates and turns the gather, shaping it by hand and tool while it is still soft.
03
Forming
The piece is worked toward its final form; colour, wall and profile are set before the glass stiffens.
04
Annealing
Finished glass is cooled slowly over hours in a controlled oven so it settles free of internal stress.
Made at
Holmegaard
Denmark · Est. 1825
Holmegaard has made glass in Denmark since 1825 and remains one of Scandinavia's most storied glassworks. Each piece is mouth-blown and shaped by hand, continuing a craft tradition central to Danish design.
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The artist
Helle Mardahl
1976, Denmark · Glass, Design, Sculpture
Helle Mardahl creates hand-blown glass objects and lighting that sit between art and functional design. Her work is defined by organic, bulbous forms and a sugary palette, drawing on childhood memory and nostalgic cinematic aesthetics.
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Details
- Artist
- Helle Mardahl
- Title
- TRANSLUCENT DREAM
- Year
- 2025
- Material
- Glass
- Dimensions
- 240 x 350 x 600 mm.
- Edition size
- 14 + Artist’s Proofs (AP)
- Provenance
- First sale, Edition Solenne
- Lead time
- 6 weeks
- Certificate
- Signed certificate of authenticity included
- Returns
- Made to order. Sales are final once production begins; contact us within 7 days if the work arrives damaged.
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