This beautiful hand blown crystal whisky glass features in the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, and is famously used by Rick Deckard to drink JW Black Label whisky. As guest contributor Matt Cole puts it in a previous Film and Furniture feature on the original film: “Standing on his apartment balcony hundreds of stories above the city, Deckard reflects on cruelly bursting Rachel’s faux-human bubble. The tumblers were best remembered when Harrison Ford’s Deckard character was seen drinking Johnnie Walker Black Label accompanied by a special edition bottle.

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Villeneuve and Gassner decided that rather than reinventing ‘the future’ they would draw on and extend the mood and themes of the first film. The tumbler, which was formerly known as the Cibi Old Fashioned Glass, was dreamt up by famed Italian designer Cini Boeri in 1973.We also witness scenes in 2049 which are heavy with smog and with a distinct lack of natural sunlight.

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Brutal but oh-so-beautiful is the grey metal E63 table lamp designed by Umberto Riva (currently manufactured by Tacchini Italia) seen on the far right above. We find over population and a collapse of the world’s ecosystems, there is no plant life and food is bio-engineered. The Cibi range of glassware has proved to be timeless, enduring as a widely-admired classic of modern product design. Fans of Blade Runner can now own the same whiskey tumblers from the original 1982 film and the Blade Runner 2049 sequel. Villeneuve and the production team wanted to create a future which extended the vision of the first movie and they found a grounding in this vision by imagining how the year 2049 might look if Steve Jobs and Apple hadn’t existed.In 1973, she designed the Cibi Collection for Arnolfo di Cambio, a range which included this distinctive piece.

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He wanted to create a toxic landscape, a red desert influenced by the Italian classic The Red Desert (1964) and he involved Syd Mead, the genius “visual futurist” of Blade Runner in the design of this scene.Deckard’s decorative tiles were designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Ennis House in Los Angeles.