Bormioli Luigi - Luxury Glassmaking at its Finest

The origins of the art of glassmaking in Italy goes back to the Middle Ages. And one place above all has always been in the forefront of the Italian glass making tradition: Murano, near Venice.
In 1946, Luigi Bormioli, founder of Vetreria Bormioli Luigi, left the family glass-making business and set up the company that bears his name in Parma. He wanted to established a company based on the principles of top-quality raw materials, highly-skilled staff and continual development of technology.
Continuing the tradition, the succes of Bormioli Luigi in this time is the company’s customer-oriented approach. The in-house team of engineers are continually developing new and innovative techniques. The automated production is easily adapted to the ideas of international designers, with a customer-oriented approach that not only meets but also anticipates all requirements.
Bormioli Luigi is dedicated to offer the best quality for the most distinguished customer. Known in Europe to be on the edge of being the leading manufacturer of cosmetics and fragrance contaniners, their dominance in this industry is the result of total dedication toward new and advanced technology.
Bormioli Luigi boasts impressive capacity with 100,000 square meters of floor space at its disposal. The Company employs a thousand workers including master glassmakers and technicians, who produce 300 millions items each year in both the packaging sector - perfume bottles and cosmetic containers - and the household sector - glasses, tumblers and tableware, resulting in an daily output of 170 tons of glass products. The size of the company makes it an ideal partner  for large international  groups, as well as for small companies.  In over fifty years of production the company has built its success on the same features that have made the Italian lifestyle famous throughout the world: creativity and design, originality and elegance coupled with state -of–the-art technical skills.
Bormioli Luigi’s main asset is its workforce. Thanks to its workforce, the company has been able to develop with stability and competence.  Customer’s needs are met with an intelligent approach; the dialogue that is set up leads to a final product that combines both science and art.
Quality has always been a byword at Bormioli Luigi: at the design stage, during production and for the final product. Stemming from the ideas of the company’s founder, this philosophy of delivering a quality  product with a high standard of customer service was the basis on which the company was founded, this has been carried on as the company has grown and is just as true today.  This can be seen now that international markets are able to appreciate the company’s  unique ability to bring that well-known Italian flair for style and design to classical or innovative shapes.
A look at some of their latest fragrance bottle creations displays why Bormioli Luigi is considered one of the finest glassmakers in all the world:
Madness (5ml 30ml, 50ml & 75ml): This parallel shaped bottle developed on an elongated rectanglebase is made from an important mass of glass. The perfectly flat sides are set off by strong corners. The design, which characterizes the bottle, consists of a cut cornice on the four vertical sides, composed of symmetrical squares which remind us of Chopard’s “Ice Cube” look on jewellery and wrist watches.
Glass distribution, an integral part of the design, combines perfectly with the bottle’s incision work, the glass thickness working in perfect harmony with the ornamental lattice. The bottle is loaded with a sensual passion, refined and violent at the same time, thanks to the transparent ruby red lacquering.
A platinum ring engraved with the perfume’s name stylishly separates the bottle from its cap like a collar, exulting the exuberant sensuality of the overall look. In the center of the front of the bottle the name Madness is printed, but in dark undertones so as not to distract from the overall senses of tension.
Angel Innocent (5ml, 75ml): Continuing the tradition and symbolism of this designer with its asymmetrical, five-pointed star, this new, cylindrically-shaped bottle unquestionably continues Thierry Mugler’s creative, signature style.
The “Innocent” bottle is produced in its classically delicate light-blue shade; the bottom of the glass contains an engraved star which is enhanced by the optical effects of the prominent glass thickness at the base; five spears of different dimensions are engraved vertically on the bottle, symbolizing the five points of a star, that branch out at the center, and burst into a flash of energy from the silver summit, the latter representing the overcap.
This bottle required a perfect glass distribution and high precision in engraving the bottom and the sides of the glass. In fact, in order to ensure optimum quality, it was necessary to create a 3-part mold for this bottle.
Michael Kors for Men (5ml, 30ml, 75ml, 125ml EDT): The bottle has a parallel form with a widened base and tall, perfectly rectangular sides which cover a large surface area. The pronounced corners which separate the sides accentuate the forceful, clean design, and the form of the bottle is finished and exalted by a granite effect cap.
In a bottle with such clean lines the glassmaker’s job was tough, both in obtaining regular distribution of the glass for the internal walls, and in obtaining such large and perfectly flat sides.
Marc Jacobs pour Femme (5ml, 15ml, 20ml, 30ml, 50ml, 100ml EDT): The bottle has a parallel form with a flat base and sides and assumes a full-bodied look, accentuated by the notable mass of glass used. The overall look gives life to a very heavy, important bottle, where the perfectly smooth surfaces and softened corners exult the regular distribution of the glass on the internal walls.
The extract bottle merits particular mention, which, following the external form of the other sizes in the eau de toilette series, shows its importance through its heavy glass construction. The internal cavity, for a capacity of just 20ml, has the shape of a perfectly formed air bubble.
BCBGirls (50ml): The bottle has a pyramidal shape with a very narrow base in comparison with the vertical development. A considerable thickness of glass at the bottom creates a very strong aesthetical impact in combination with the external shape, which is so linear and essential. A well defined plinth allows to achieve a perfect alignment with the plastic cap, which enters the design of the bottle without interruption. Acid etching is the final process made on this clear glass bottle.
The filling up with fragrances of four different tones, Nature (green), Star (pink), Metro (blue), and Sexy (amber), gives a chromatic pastel effect. The result of the whole is simple and polished, of great visual effect, personalized by a white screen printing that enters the delicate context of the whole perfectly.
Presence Mont Blanc (5ml, 50ml, 75ml): This extremely elegant bottle with its pure and smooth appearance plays with contrasts: plastic vs. glass, black vs. transparency, edges vs. curves.
A special flaming process developed for this half-shaped, footless bottle allowed Bormioli Luigi to erase mold seams and bring out its stylish perfection, which would otherwise have been very difficult to achieve on such large surfaces. A black colored plastic component supports the bottle and enhances the characteristic of luminosity and brightness of glass.
Bruno Banani Woman (20ml, 30ml, 50ml): This pink-colored bottle is distinguishable by its cone-shaped body, reminding one of a “cone,” an instrument of ancient tradition.
The asymmetry of this bottle resulted in unique techniques in order to obtain a linear glass distribution of the walls, as well as a perfectly flat glass bottom. The bottle design finds its natural completion in the cap, which takes up the color of the bottle itself, creating together an extremely original, sleek package.
To accentuate the harmonious, visual effect of the package, delicate black silk screeening becomes a part of this creation, recognizing with it the name of the designer, personified in this woman’s fragrance.
Little Black Dress (50ml): The bottle has a parallel form with a fairly lengthened base, while its height is similar to the length of the two main sides in order to give the idea of a cube. The section between the two side walls gives the idea of an oval. The external edges of the bottle are very regular, glass distribution at the base is more accentuated and the walls are very regular, giving the bottle clean lines and an important look. This look is completed by a plastic cap realized in two colors, black and gold, and by minimal black print in the center of the front side.
Krizia (50ml, 75 ml): The new Krizia bottle has a flattened pyramid shape bound with a ring, a silver colored strip which separates the bottle from the acid etched base which itself recaptrues the essence of the plastic cap.
The metallic strip plays three important roles: it identifies the bottle with the Krizia logo inscription, it gives rhythm through the juxtaposition of the opaque silver of the bottle and the brightness of the metal, and voila, to round things off it hides the electronic device which, when the cap is opened, lights up the perfume with a fluorescent orange color.
The creation of this flattened cone form proved very complex. The reduced glass thickness required pushed technicians to study moulds made of spcial materials which permitted extreme surface regularity, without having to rely on work-heavy interventions after glass forming.