The new Kaktus ball from Meisenthal
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After Stella in 2023, Piaf in 2021 or even Magma in 2020 and Arti in 2018, Meisenthal has just unveiled its 2024 Christmas bauble: Cactus. The object is eagerly awaited by collectors, but also Christmas lovers who will rush to come and buy it tomorrow on the Meisenthal glassmaking sitethe CIAV, in Moselle. Between 1999 and 2024, 35 models of Christmas baubles have been published by the Center International d'Art Verrier.
In a press release, the Meisenthal glass site explains: “Meisenthal Christmas baubles are durable objects that are collected and passed down from generation to generation, just like the subjects they address. In this context, the designer Mark Brauninvited this year to imagine a contemporary Christmas bauble for our collections, wanted the model he was going to design to be able to bear witness in the future to the issues of our time and in particular to evoke questions related to climate issues. The designer chose to approach the subject with spicy irony, imagining a hypothetical future tropical Christmas in our latitudeswhich would see the cactus replace our traditional Christmas trees, decorated with balls whose shape would be inspired by its fruits. The Kaktus Christmas ball, beyond its decorative function and its aesthetics, thus carries within itself the message of a necessary collective awareness to avoid, in the future, to have to celebrate Christmas on the balcony!”
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Practical sales information
Cactus will be on sale at the CIAV in Meisenthal starting this Thursday, November 14. At the store, at the end of November, the purchase of the Kaktus ball is limited to a maximum of 4 copies per household (while stocks last). Its price is 26€ TTC. New this year will be the virtual queue: “Access to this system is offered within the Pavilion (…) One of our agents will give the visitor a passage order ticket in the virtual queue to access the store. Visitors can then be informed of the evolution of their position in the queue by SMS, by scanning the QR code of their ticket or via screens. When your visit is imminent, come to the waiting area facing the store. Once your number is displayed on the screen, present your ticket to the receptionist who will invite you in to make your purchases.” An online click & collect sale, with order collection in Meisenthal, will open on November 19 at 9 a.m. on the site: www.boutique.ciav-meisenthal.fr.
The new ball will also be on sale at the Caveau Sainte-Barbe in Sélestat from November 23 (with a limit of 3 copies) and at the Strasbourg Christmas market, place Benjamin Zix, from November 27 to December 24 (with a limited of 2 copies maximum per customer).
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The designer of the Meisenthal Christmas bauble 2024 is Mark Braun. He was born in Germany, in Gehrden in 1975. After training in carpentry, he studied industrial design at the University of Applied Sciences in several universities. In 2006, he founded his own design agency in Berlin. |
