Designer Melanie Abrantes has used cork and wood leftover from her old projects to create sculptural vases, canisters and baskets influenced by the colours, forms and textures of California's coast. More about Melanie Abrantes turns material scraps into Modern California homeware collection
Designer José de la O has teamed up with technology firm Mirai Innovation to develop a way for people to manipulate the shape of a vase using only their thoughts. More about Studio José de la O reveals objects designed by brainwaves
Madrid designer Jorge Penadés has repurposed extruded aluminium parts from old lamps and shelves to create a series of multicoloured vases for furniture brand BD Barcelona Design. More about Jorge Penadés creates extruded aluminium vases from reclaimed products
Created by subsidiaries of the Samsung corporation and distributed across South Korea, this unassuming flower vase doubles up as a throwable fire extinguisher. More about Firevase is a vase that doubles as a fire extinguisher
German design studio BNAG encourages us to celebrate our flaws with a collection of lumpy nose vases and pink nipple clocks, exhibited as part of this year's Nomad collectible design fair. More about BNAG's Body Buddies ceramics champion body diversity
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Erika Emeren has turned a traditional cake-making technique into a method for forming unique ceramic vases. More about Erika Emeren uses Swedish spit-cake technique to create decorative vases
Italian architect Matteo Thun has used cold-processing techniques to create a series of translucent blown-glass vases for Murano glassmakers Venini. More about Matteo Thun creates limited edition series of translucent vessels for Venini
The latest Dezeen competition offers five readers the chance to win one of these concrete vases and plant pots, which design studio Tiipoi has modelled on urban infrastructure in India. More about Competition: win a Siment vase modelled on India's brutalist architecture
Sam Baron and Costas Voyatzis, founder of Yatzer, have created a collection of irregular, handmade and hand-painted ceramics for Swedish design company Mateus. More about Sam Baron and Yatzer look back to "humankind's earliest ceramics" for Mateus
Designers Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundquist have created a series of knobbly concrete vases that looks like lava rocks, for the new home of prolific Copenhagen restaurant Noma. More about Rock-like Mater vases feature inside Copenhagen restaurant Noma
Royal College of Art graduate Philipp Schenk-Mischke aims to bring an element of chaos to his designs, which include lopsided vases and tables held together by metal blobs. More about Philipp Schenk-Mischke creates ceramics and furniture that are partly accidental in design
South Korean designer Kwangho Lee has inlaid cherry wood furniture with enameled copper panels made using an ancient Korean firing technique. More about Kwangho Lee uses ancient enamelling process for collection of furniture
Bjarke Ingels' architecture studio BIG has designed a limited-edition ceramic vase modelled on an inflatable art pavilion that it designed in 2016. More about BIG scales down form of its inflatable Skum pavilion to create porcelain vase
Design studio Bravo! has exploited the textures and hues in rock from one of Chile's volcanos in this collection of 80 home accessories, featuring block colours, swirling patterns, mottled surfaces and thick veins. More about Bravo! carves 80 vessels from volcanic rock for Monolith Series
Brighton-based designer Kris Lamba has created a collection of bronze vases from casts made by dissolving discarded polystyrene packaging. More about Kris Lamba casts bronze vessels in the form of dissolved polystyrene
Japanese design duo We+ has created a series of magnetic chairs and vases that are covered with thousands of tiny steel rods. More about We+ creates magnetic spiky chair and matching vases
Japanese studio Nendo and specialist metal company Wakazono have machined a 15-kilogram vase from a 100-kilogram block of aluminium in an intricate process that took seven months. More about Nendo carves "four-layered" vase from a single 100-kilo block of aluminium
Humberto & Fernando Campana, Atelier Oï, Patricia Urquiola and Marcel Wanders have all contributed to Louis Vuitton's first collection of decorative leather objects for the home. More about Louis Vuitton launches collection of travel-inspired home accessories
Swedish-Chilean designer Anton Alvarez has created a series of tall vessels featuring the vibrant blue tone favoured by artist Yves Klein. More about Anton Alvarez adopts Yves Klein's signature blue for extruded vases
Japanese designer Kodai Iwamoto uses glass-blowing techniques to remodel plastic pipes into vases, which he is showing at Milan design week. More about Kodai Iwamoto transforms plastic pipes into flower vases