New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Two young Delhi-based glass artists have taken their futuristic work to the HDL Couture Week in Mumbai.
Prateek Jain and Gautam Seth, both 30, have made an elaborate glass stage set for Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar’s and designer Varun Bahl’s menswear fashion show in Mumbai Oct 16.

They are known for their glass home accessories, new age glass art and installations.

Jain and Seth have created a “giant incomplete construction site using glass as the building blocks with steel scaffolding, nuts, bolts and a glass crane with levers” for the Johar and Bahl show.

“They wanted a glass backdrop for the stage. As the show was a men’s wear line, we were told to make something rough, glamorous and masculine. Johar and Bahl felt there was lot of glamour attached to glass,” Jain told IANS.

The duo owns a glass design studio, the Klove Studio, at the Hauz Khas village in the capital.

They had earlier worked on various assignments with the president of the Fashion Design Council of India president Sunil Sethi’s “Design Alliance”, a design platform.

Karan Johar, who made his maiden foray into fashion at the HDL Couture Week, has designed an exclusive men’s wear line for Varun Bahl.

“The glass work has a lot of drama. The motifs are set in black and white mode,” artist Gautam Seth said.

For the designers, who started their studio of blown glass works five years ago, “it has been a steady movement into various genres”.

“We have contributed to the decor of designer Rohit Bal’s new restaurant Cibo in the capital and had earlier made a huge glass and metal installation for designer Ritu Kumar,” the artists said.

In their upcoming line for Goodearth, a leading home decor store, the duo has created “designs that look like structured atoms”.

“We ventured into blown glass designing four years ago. Initially we tried different forms with a variety of material, but glass was most easy to handle. It is more fluid and can be moulded into forms like tear drop or a pearl drop,” Jain said.

The duo had displayed their works for the first time at the innovative show “Transparent, Translucent and Opaque”, a pioneering mixed media art exhibition, at the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre in 2005.