During July the Bombay Sapphire Glass House exhibition has taken up residence in Festival Square in the centre of Edinburgh.

This specially designed glass house has been created to exhibit works by the finalists of the world’s biggest international glass award, the £20,000 Bombay Sapphire Prize.

This celebration of innovation in glass, ranging from glass tableware, to sculpture, to designs for architecture, is set against a backdrop of a living botanical garden within the glass house.

The exhibition includes work by Scottish glass artists including Nicola Cairns and Jessica Townsend as well as some of the UK’s leading designers.  The bar area also displays the martini glasses by finalists of the ‘Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition’.

The botanical garden showcases the combination of 10 botanicals that create the taste of Bombay Sapphire gin.

Visitors to the glass house can touch and smell the living botanicals as well as enjoy the glass exhibition and experience the taste of Bombay Sapphire gin.

The exhibition is open from 4 to 30 July 2006 at Festival Square, Edinburgh.  Opening ours Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm.  Admission free.