Rapidly shaping up as the young world master of that space between art and design, Jaime Hayon does it again. This time in partnership with Baccarat, Hayon is plying his remarkable talent for transforming the slightly stuffy into the covetable and highly collectable. Helping to preserve traditional craftsman techniques for a new generation into the bargain. The splendid spoils of the Baccarat collaboration are the rather jauntily named Crystal Candy Set. But snappy (and hugely apt) titles apart, for me, the really wonderful side of Hayon’s work – be it with Lladro or Metalarte or Swarovski – is how he seems to bury a little piece of himself inside every vase and lamp and figurine. In the hands of the Spaniard, inanimate objects they most definitely are not.
