Kiki Goti pays tribute to feminine mystique with the ‘Nuphar’ mirror

Greek designer and artist Kiki Goti’s latest design offering, the Nuphar mirror, debuts in New York, as part of the Curated Section of the Collectible Fair NY. According to the designer’s statement, the Kiki Goti x Vetralia Collectible product design is "a tribute to the feminine mystique, inspired by the enchanting world of water lilies—a testament to the delicate elegance and ethereal allure of these aquatic plants."

Made of baked coloured glass, coloured glass spheres, handmade mirrors and painted wood, Nuphar celebrates the inherent beauty and quality of glass and has been conceived to luminously reflect light with "a gentle, mysterious, watery shimmer," the product designer adds.

Curated by Sonya Tamaddon, the section at the design fair (taking place from September 5 - 8, 2024), is inspired by Frank O’Hara’s 1960 poem, Having a Coke With You—celebrating love, beauty and art by transforming the ordinary into the sublime, it invites us to find beauty in daily life, in loved ones and in fleeting moments often overlooked.

Goti is a Greek architect, designer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York, US. As an artist, Goti hybridises materials and fabrication methods to explore relationships between colour, texture, heritage, identity and innovative design. The result is a boundless pop vernacular, via object and environment, that reshapes preconceived notions of aesthetics and contributes to the discourse surrounding human experience.

With Nuphar too, the artist intends to invigorate the environment and the people around it. According to Goti, the mirror "embodies the exuberance of life, offering a new perspective on the ordinary and encouraging a deeper appreciation of the world we inhabit".