London Design Festival: delicate flowers and foliage are protected by the steel cages around these concrete vases by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song.
The V4 collection comprises four differently shaped vases, each with a thin walnut base.
"Lightness and heaviness, lines and lumps, smoothness and roughness, coldness and warmth – all materials and forms balance through the course of colliding and confronting within one volume," says Song.
The vases were showcased by design company Design To Do at the 100% Design trade show during the recent London Design Festival, as part of an exhibition organised by the Korea Institute for Design Promotion.
We previously featured a collection of furniture by Song, which included chairs that double as ladders, beds or rocking chairs.
Dezeen hosted a series of talks with designers and creatives at 100% Design this year, including a discussion with Yves Behar on skeuomorphic design.
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Looks like the love child(ren) of Jaime Hayon’s Grid Family vases for Gaia + Gino and BarberOsgerby’s Lanterne Marine vases for Venini. Not necessarily a bad thing as I think this latest iteration of vases stands on its own, even when viewed alongside the others (the initial reaction of “seen that/been there” notwithstanding).
We should not support a designer like this. His works are not original!
He should respect other designer’s ideas.
Look like these: http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/weight-vases-by-…
No doubt the design has quality, but I agree with BBO: there is a lack of originality that makes it very questionable.