design soil - fadeless

I've always loved the Japanese tradition of the single flower vase. While a big, bold flower arrangement is always thrilling, there's just something so simple and delicate about the display of a single, perfect blossom. Nobu Miake, of the group Design Soil, has taken the concept of the single flower vase one step further with fadeless, a lovely series of single flower vases designed for dried flowers.

Using brass, wood, leather, and a rubber band, these vases serve a dual purpose, with the live flower first hung upside-down to facilitate drying before it's either flipped or reconfigured to allow it to be displayed indefinitely. According to the description from the designer:

Stop the time. The vase for dried flowers hung upside down and slowly dried. Although flowers fade eventually once they are picked, this vase can defy the fate. The upside down flower slowly stops the time and start a new life with its dedicate beauty.

(Via Spoon & Tamago)

if I had a million dollars

I would buy...{the home accessories edition: vases}

The Flexvase, from Vij5, available at The Future Perfect.

One of Tina Frey's resin Leo Vases, from Horne.

Stephan Jaklitsch's Terrain Vase, available at the MoMA Design Store.

This large Non-Temporary Vase, from Hella Jongerius, available at The Future Perfect.

And Up In the Air Somewhere's peach stripe smokestack vase.

Béatrix Li-Chin Loos - beautiful planets

Yes, they certainly are. Beautiful Planets, by Béatrix Li-Chin Loos, are a series of sculptural vases modeled after planets, through the use of a variety of different surfaces and materials, including wood, cardboard, leather, and glass. Definitely unlike anything I've ever seen before, in a very good way.

(Via sub-studio design blog)

skujeniece - spools

I love the simplicity of the forms in this series of porcelain spool vases made by skujenice, a design studio in Amsterdam. Below, you can see the some of the models and molds used to create these, as well as close-ups of the finished product. I especially like the way in which the seam from each mold has been incorporated into the overall design of the piece.





(Via zoetropa)