Don't worry if you smash this vase by Dutch designer Mianne de Vries – a back-up vase is waiting inside.
Between two and four differently shaped vases are fitted inside each other to create each Curious Vase.
"The only way to discover what is inside is to destroy the vase," says de Vries. "But if you destroy the vase to find out what's in it, there is no turning back."
De Vries recently graduated from the Graphics and Product Design course at Utrecht School of the Arts.
Are these stupid or cool? I really can’t tell. It seems to me that the interesting thing is the moulding and casting… how does the designer use the (presumably) slip moulds to encase each vase within each other or is there some other construction method?
In my opinion there are two very different ideas mixed up:
1. “Don’t worry if you smash this vase (…) – a back-up vase is waiting inside.”
2. “The only way to discover what is inside is to destroy the vase.”
BTW: How are they fabricated?
Hands up all the people walking around the house armed with curiosity and a hammer on a regular basis!
@paul
Just add ”vase” in the second sentence, and everything is ok.
1. “Don’t worry if you smash this vase (…) – a back-up vase is waiting inside.”
2. “The only way to discover what ”vase” is inside is to destroy the vase.”
And probably a very time consuming process.
Making a cast and cutting it in half, paste it around a smaller vase to form the new layer. I think you have to bake every layer, so the inner vase was in the oven 4 times.