Design Miami 07: Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny presented a project called Paper Vases at Design Miami last week, which involved laminating 700 sheets of paper into a solid block and then turning this into a vase on a lathe.
Each sheet of paper is printed with an identical image of a tree, creating an ghostly tree pattern on the surface of the vases.
The project explores how paper – a product made from trees – can be returned to its original state and carved as if it were wood.
The vases are produced in a limited edition of ten sets of five vases.
The sheets of paper are glued with wood glue and left in a hydraulic press to dry.
These photos show how the vases are made.
Libertiny also designed the Honeycomb Vases, which are made by bees inside a hive.
Update: see our movie of this project at Design Miami
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
December 14th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I really like the ‘work in progress’ pictures.
December 14th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I saw them doing the vases at Design Miami and they are fantastic. It looks really delicate and beautiful. Its really nice to see the pattern pop out once lathed.
Great.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
oh wow, the process to making these vases is just amazing. i want one. i really do.
10/10 bravo!
December 15th, 2007 at 9:27 am
bravo Tomas!
December 15th, 2007 at 11:18 am
great idea, but i hope the huge portion of the block that was wasted is being recycled or put to use somehow…
December 15th, 2007 at 11:20 am
beautiful!
December 15th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Lovely~~
December 15th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Very elegant.
December 15th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Pure Poetry.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:31 am
i like it very much
one issue
water for flowers?
December 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Very interesting- very strong.
I’m seeing quite a few interesting projects lately that investigate the intersection of Graphics and Products- This is much more intelligent than this shallow project of plastic doll painting that annoys me.. No concept, no reflection- where as this project is very strong in those dimensions.
I wonder however- could the image, the colors etc. have been better? Product-wise, concept-wise- very good- Graphics could have been bolder I think..
goodone libertini!
December 17th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Congratulations Tomas.
Great work.
can’t wait to see what is next.
arno
December 17th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I’m just curious about the paper to wood glue ratio ?, apart from that a nice concept of taking paper full circle.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I wonder how much it weights? And what it feels like in hands. oh, yeah and the water, like someone said. But really, this is very nice, would really want one.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Facsimile over real trees? Never.
I don’t care how recycled the paper is.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
cute
December 21st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
conservative design coupled with stone aged unefficient production process. no idea what is supposed to be innovative or interesting about this. give me a piece of clay..
January 26th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
although its a beautiful project I wonder how much of it is sustainable ?
obviously they had to put in at least 20-30% glue to get that good grip between papers ,plus these are new papers so what about using recycled /used paper ?
April 6th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
uau!!! congratulations!