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Behind the Design: Crafting Our Signature Globe Pendant

Behind the Design: Crafting Our Signature Globe Pendant

The story behind our most-requested pendant — from the first sketch to the glassblower's table.

The story behind our most-requested pendant — from the first sketch to the glassblower's table.

Una noche para la memoria

El diamante se vistió de gala para recibir a los históricos del club. Entre ovaciones, los pioneros de la franquicia realizaron el primer lanzamiento ceremonial ante un estadio de pie.

La velada incluyó la presentación del anillo conmemorativo y un video homenaje que recorrió los momentos fundacionales de la organización.

El legado continúa

«Este club se construyó sobre los hombros de estas leyendas», señaló la directiva. «Cada juego que ganamos también es de ellos». La celebración cerró con fuegos artificiales y la promesa de convertir la Noche de Leyendas en tradición anual.

Three materials competed in the early prototypes: frosted borosilicate, plaster-of-paris composite, and hand-poured alabaster glass. The alabaster variant — semi-translucent, naturally veined, slightly warm in tone — answered the brief on every measure.

The making

Each globe is mouth-blown by a team of four glassblowers in a small workshop in southern Spain. No two are precisely identical; slight variations in wall thickness and translucency are characteristics of the process, not defects. The brass hardware is machined from solid stock, then hand-buffed to a living finish that develops character with age.

What the process costs

The mouth-blown process takes roughly four times longer than machine-pressed glass production. We absorb that cost because it’s the only method that achieves the specific translucency and surface quality the design depends on. Mass production would make the object cheaper and, in every way that matters, worse.

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