Ichendorf Milano’s 2025 collections showcase the captivating artistry of handmade, flame-worked borosilicate glass, exploring suggestive, dreamlike forms and artisanal excellence.
This year’s offerings explore innovative designs and vibrant narratives, from the organic breath of Pascal Hien‘s Alembicco carafes, inspired by traditional distillery equipment, to the globally-inspired ritual of Astrid Luglio‘s Coffee&T cups.
The collections include reinterpretations of classic designs, like Naessi Studio‘s Clarinette French press, alongside ethereal new concepts such as the Grazia candleholder and oil lamp. Denis Guidone expands his popular Ice and Folk collections, while Alessandra Baldereschi‘s whimsical Animal Farm and Botanica lines continue to enchant. Tomoko Mizu‘s minimalist Birds collection adds a touch of serene elegance. Explore Ichendorf Milano‘s latest creations.
Alembicco Ichendorf Milano
The Alembicco collection, designed by Pascal Hien, is inspired by the unique characteristic of glass to freeze a fluid shape into a solid structure. These carafes capture this moment of creation, its organic form, like a breath of air. The name Alembicco derives from a period the designer spent in the Monte Grappa region, where old distillery designs caught his attention. The organic shape of the spout on the three carafes references the history of distillery equipment. The collection includes three different clear jugs.
Coffee&T Ichendorf Milano
The Coffee&T collection, designed by Astrid Luglio, is a line of cups that celebrates a collective daily ritual, adding subtle details to make the experience more fulfilling. Through the study of proportions and the choice of colors, the project aims to speak to different cultures and traditions surrounding coffee and tea consumption, with the goal of being appreciated worldwide. The collection includes a tea cup and a coffee cup, both available in three different colors.
Clarinette Ichendorf Milano
The Clarinette collection, designed by Naessi Studio, evokes the origins of the first French press factory with its name: a factory of musical instruments, specifically clarinets. Clarinette is a redesign of the classic French press: the traditional metal parts are streamlined, allowing the glass to take center stage. In this way, the French press transforms from being a purely functional tool into an object that is both practical and decorative, beautiful to bring to the table. The collection includes a French press in two sizes, both available in four colors.
Grazia Ichendorf Milano
The Grazia collection, designed by Naessi Studio, is inspired by the traditional candlestick, reinterpreted into two objects where the metal base and the candle are reimagined as a single glass body: a candleholder and an oil lamp. The slender shapes and single material make them ethereal and conceptual. The collection includes a candleholder and an oil lamp, both clear.
Pot Ichendorf Milano
The Pot collection, designed by Paolo Golinelli, is a compact, single-color teapot. It is a transparent bubble with an opening to add water and a tea bag, as well as a spout on the opposite side to pour the infusion. The handle ensures an easy grip and insulation from the heat of the bubble. The collection consists of a teapot available in three different colors.
Luna Ichendorf Milano
The Luna collection, designed by Ichendorf Milano and characterized by a hemisphere applied to the bottom, is expanded with three tumblers and three mugs in different colors.
Tube Ichendorf Milano
The Tube collection, designed by Studio Ichendorf, known for its essential yet distinctive pitchers, is expanded with two new versions: a clear jug with a pink handle and a jug in which, for the first time, the body is colored pink while the handle is clear.
Ice Ichendorf Milano
The already well-known Ice collection, designed by Denis Guidone, inspired by the intriguing and pleasant light reflections created when observing a block of ice, expands with new design pieces. Each shape is different from the others, making each piece unique. The new additions are a longdrink, a soup plate, a salad bowl, and a platter.
Folk Ichendorf Milano
The Folk tea collection, designed by Denis Guidone, celebrates the simplicity and beauty of traditional Japanese folk crafts, commonly known as Mingei. The teapot features a leak-proof spout and an ergonomic handle positioned at the top to make it easier to hold while isolating the heat. Completely clear, it allows you to appreciate the magnificent colors that different teasprovide. The collection includes a teapot, a tea cup, a coffee cup, and a sugar bowl.
Bistrot Ichendorf Milano
The Bistrot collection, designed by Denis Guidone, is inspired by the shape of the traditional Italian wine flask covered in woven straw. Oval in shape, it is considered the perfect and most logical form that can be created using the blown glass technique, as it resembles the shape of a drop of molten glass before being molded. Once very common, today, due to preservation difficulties, it has almost fallen into disuse. The project proposes this shape as a decanter, using optical borosilicate glass, which gives elegance and modernity to an object that is part of Italian tradition. The collection consists of a decanter.
Kamakura Ichendorf Milano
The Kamakura collection, designed by Denis Guidone, is inspired by the oval-shaped cast iron teapots used in the tea ceremony during the Japanese Kamakura period. The collection reinterprets this tool in a contemporary way with an aesthetic that blends Eastern and Western cultures. The collection includes a teapot, a lantern, a tea cup, and a coffee cup.
Animal Farm Ichendorf Milano
The collection, populated by the animals imagined and designed by Alessandra Baldereschi, continues to grow with the introduction of six wine glasses and four tumblers featuring new protagonists: the red fish, the rooster, the goose, and the sheep.
Botanica Ichendorf Milano
The Botanica collection, designed by Alessandra Baldereschi, which has already taken us on a journey to discover imaginative flowers of different colors, elegant protagonists of the line, expands with two tealights and three glass flowers, bringing a new subject into the large Botanica family.
Desert Plants Ichendorf Milano
The collection, famous for its small glass sculptures of succulents enriched with details and colors from the imagination of designer Alessandra Baldereschi, continues to grow, this time with an hourglass, three tealights, a candleholder, a box, and a jug.
Dogs Ichendorf Milano
This collection comes from the designer’s deep and personal love for animals. Their presence enriches with affection and inspiration, and it is this bond that motivated the designer to create a collection that celebrates them. Each piece is handmade in borosilicate glass and decorated with many different dog breeds. The collection features: golden retriever, bull terrier, English foxhound, dachshund, chihuahua, dalmatian, bulldog, poodle, and bull terrier.
Fruits&Flowers Ichendorf Milano
The now well-known Fruits & Flowers collection, designed by Alessandra Baldereschi, expands with a new assortment of colorful fruit in three new tumblers. The protagonists of these novelties are the apple and the pear, which for the first time appear cut in half.
Sogni d’Oriente Ichendorf Milano
The collection is inspired by the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights. From the mysterious colors of the sky to the moonlight, to Aladdin’s dreams and the thousand wonders of Eastern fairy tales, this collection in colored glass is born. Shades of purple, aqua green, and blue intertwine to evoke the magical and enchanted atmosphere of an imagined East. The soft lines and elegant shapes are inspired by Eastern objects and motifs, while the vibrant colors tell the intensity of a world full of mystery, passion, and adventure.
Tender Ties Ichendorf Milano
Through the image of two pairs of animals, the designer wanted to represent the special bond that unites parents to their child. It is an invisible thread of love, protection, and dedication. There are two episodes, one with the fawn and the other with the elephant, that tell the story of the sweetness, care, and boundless affection between parents and their young.
Vegetables Ichendorf Milano
The imaginative collection designed by designer Alessandra Baldereschi brings joy and cheer to our tables with various design objects: six coffee cups, a teapot, an oil bottle, a footed plate, a creamer, and a plate/small tray. Colors, chili peppers, peas, and tomatoes come together on the glass of these objects, creating an explosion of natural happiness.
Birds Ichendorf Milano
Designer Tomoko Mizu expands the minimalist and essential collection with a jug, a bowl, a creamer, and a salt and pepper set.
About Ichendorf Milano
Ichendorf company history began back in the early years of the twentieth century in a small town near Cologne, named Quadrath-Ichendorf. There, many master-glaziers used a mix of substances, among which was silica, to give shape to objects able to meet the refined taste of that period.
A stylistic code defined by precious ornaments, which had the undiscussed leading role of the collections proposed up until the fifties of the past century, when a very important change is established: to favor clean shape and purity of material. Old form and adornment were abolished in search of a renewed language of accessible, and no longer exclusive, shapes. That leads us to the creation of modern designed objects.
In 1990 Ichendorf is established in Milan, creative point of convergence of artists and designers. It is a new story through which artists and designers come into contact with the very heart of the material, to combine different signs in a single poetic shape, able to encolse a continuous search for details, always respecting history and master-glaziers’ expertise.
It is a long, passionate and meticulous work of exchange and collaboration, which guarantees each Ichendorf object to live over time. The materials used range from glass, crystal and borosilicate, with a process guided by ancient knowledge. The encounter and constant exchange of tradition and innovation, always aimed at the pursuit of beauty in its purest forms, gives life to all Ichendorf objects.