Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert to create mouth-blown glass installation at the V&A
London Design Festival 2014: in this movie produced by Dezeen for Perrier-Jouët, glass artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert shows us the factory where the glass is being made for his upcoming installation at the V&A.
![Human Nature by Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/Human-Nature-by-Jeremy-Maxwell-Wintrebert_dezeen_03.jpg)
Wintrebert has been commissioned by champagne brand Perrier-Jouët to create a bespoke installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum for London Design Festival.
A continuation of an ongoing project called Human Nature, the installation will consist of hundreds of stacked glass cylinders.
![Human Nature by Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/Human-Nature-by-Jeremy-Maxwell-Wintrebert_dezeen_02.jpg)
"The idea behind Human Nature was having these very simple geometric, colourful shapes and bringing them into natural environments," Wintrebert explains. "What interested Perrier-Jouët was not just the contemporary aspect of that, but also the very organic nature of that story."
![LambertsGlas factory in Waldsassen, Germany](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/LambertsGlas-factory_dezeen_01.jpg)
The glass cylinders Wintrebert will use to create his installation are produced by LambertsGlas, a glass factory in Waldsassen, Germany.
"This factory is one of the last places where they still make mouth-blown windows," Wintrebert claims. "It's the biggest one still running."
![Glass blowing at LambertsGlas factory](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/LambertsGlas-factory_dezeen_06.jpg)
Usually, Wintrebert would blow his own glass, but the scale of the V&A installation made that impossible.
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"This is the first time that I've been part of a creative process with glass where I'm not actually making the glass," he says. "If I had to make a hundred and fifty cylinders by myself, it would take years."
![Mouth-blown glass cylinder in production](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/LambertsGlas-factory_dezeen_02.jpg)
The cylinders Wintrebert uses are actually an intermediary stage in the process of producing mouth-blown windows. Normally, the cylinders would be cut and reheated to create a flat pane of glass.
![Glass blowing at LambertsGlas factory](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/LambertsGlas-factory_dezeen_03.jpg)
However, Wintrebert is just as interested in the process of glass blowing as the finished product.
"When I saw glass-blowing for the first time, when I saw hot molten glass at the end of a pipe, I just fell in love with the material right away," he explains.
![Glass blowing at LambertsGlas factory](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/LambertsGlas-factory_dezeen_04.jpg)
Wintrebert's Human Nature installation for Perrier-Jouët will be on show at the V&A from 13 to 21 September at the V&A in London.
Dezeen will be documenting the final installation in a follow-up movie that will be published during the festival.
The music in the movie is by 800xL.
![Glass artist Jeremy Maxwell Winterbret](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2014/09/Jeremy-Maxwell-Winterbret-portrait_dezeen_02.jpg)