Matteo Thun creates limited edition series of translucent vessels for Venini
Italian architect Matteo Thun has used cold-processing techniques to create a series of translucent blown-glass vases for Murano glassmakers Venini. More
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The Pan whistling jug sounds a musical note as you pour
French designer Pierre Charrié has reimagined traditional Peruvian singing vessels with his collection of coloured musical jugs. More
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Nouvel Limited push the possibilities of blown glass with latest collection
Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands feature in Nouvel Limited's latest collection. More
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Visser & Meijwaard create black vessels inspired by traditional Dutch cabinets
Arnhem-based designers Visser & Meijwaard drew upon their Dutch heritage to create these matt black vessels for German design brand Pulpo. More
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John Booth hand paints abstract faces for Tributes ceramics collection
London designer John Booth has created three-dimensional versions of his colourful illustrations for this collection of collage-style vases. More
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Industrial Facility designs stretched versions of traditional Japanese lacquerware for Store collection
London studio Industrial Facility has unveiled a collection of lacquered vessels at Milan design week that are based on traditional Japanese soup and rice bowls. More
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Royal College of Art students design The Brinery home fermentation tool
The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables. More
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Bios Incube turns ashes of cremated bodies into trees
The developers of a biodegradable urn that turns the ashes of a dead person into a tree have designed an incubator to aid the growth process (+ slideshow). More
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Victor Castanera's Undae vases are striped to look like sand and sea
Spanish product designer Victor Castanera has created a set of cylindrical resin containers with patterns reminiscent of ocean waves and sandy beaches. More
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Egg-shaped urns for cremated ashes rock back and forth without falling over
Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More
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Make That Studio designs minimal version of traditional Sicilian jug
Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). More
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Aandersson deconstructs archetypal vessels to create unusual ceramic shapes
Ian Anderson's Philadelphia-based ceramics studio has developed a collection of porcelain tableware by deforming traditional shapes, with the aim to increase, or at least maintain, the functionality of each piece (+ slideshow). More
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Aldo Bakker takes over Amsterdam exhibition space with just five jugs
Amsterdam exhibition space Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. More
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Guide to Cannibalism suggests ways to eat humans
Graduate shows 2015: intended to promote eating humans, the Guide to Cannibalism provides recipes for cooking meat, and also comes with kitchenware embedded with real hair (+ slideshow). More
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Benjamin Hubert patterns ceramic containers with raised seams
London designer Benjamin Hubert has moulded a range of ceramic containers to leave spiral and criss-crossing seams around the outside (+ slideshow). More
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Sigmund's Travelling T-Laboratory tea set packs away into a phallic tube
Finnish designer Iiro A Ahokas has created a tea set that fits neatly together inside an insulated cup shaped like a "bawdy" test tube. More
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Ferm Living adds graphic textiles and rubber coated vessels to homeware collection
Northmodern 2015: stackable vases with a rubberised coating and geometric-patterned textiles are among homeware items by Danish brand Ferm Living on show at the Northmodern design fair in Copenhagen. More
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Kenyon Yeh's Flue vessels stack inside each other
These stackable containers by Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh are all made in different materials and sizes, but combine to form a sculptural object. More
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Claesson Koivisto Rune refines the Champagne glass
Stockholm studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has teamed up with a Champagne expert to design a version of the classic glass flute. More
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Matali Crasset presents woven vessels in collaboration with Zimbabwean weavers
A series of bulbous wicker forms by French designer Matali Crasset aim to promote traditional Zimbabwean weaving techniques. More
