What is the function of a vase? When asking that question again and again, designer Giorgia Zanellato discovered that too many vase designs nowadays focus on the appearances of the vases too much while seldom displaying flowers well enough.  Giorgia wants to change the trend, and thus puts forward the Narciso, a series of vases made in borosilicate glass, powder-coated aluminum and mirrored stainless steel to change a simple flower or stem into a complex kaleidoscope effect. These designs have succeeded, cleverly drawing our attention to the flowers, even without letting us notice the change.

Designer: Giorgia Zanellato

Are there any methods, except for refreshing their appearances or changing their functionalities, which can bring us new unique lamps? Nodded with yes, London designer Roger Arquer has put forward the Touch Lamp Vase that is switched on/off by touching flowers in the adjoining vase. But why could it do that?

According to the designer, high content of water on the flowers w make their sterns conductive and sensitive when touched and as a result the light would turn on or off then. But as the electricity runs on merely 12V, it can be completely safe for use.

Designer: Roger Arquer Studio

Very interesting design— we can offer the plants with sufficient carbon dioxide as we breath, ensure them enough exposure to sunlight as we walk outside, and probably supply some water as we  drink. Aha, just for kidding… But such Plant Necklace can make us value plants and other species more, actually.

War and peace, violence and non-violence, except for those there’re also many other words opposing in meanings, such as flowers and bombs. Designed by Biaugust, the Bomb Vase shows us the cruelty of war in a new way: bombs destroy flowers, nature and lives.

Designer: Biaugust

Selling Price: $52

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Just like people stand in various poses before taking the pictures, the flowers also come in different poses to give your rooms a new look. So great!

Designer: Graham Johnston

Selling Price: £490-£560

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Called Funnel Vase, the ceramic vase designed by Roger Arquer features a simple but meaningful change: a funnel on the side allows the users to change water without having to remove the flowers. Also deemed as an art piece, the Funnel Vase will be on show at the ‘Translations’ exhibition during London Design Festival later this month.

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Tornado and vase seem to be unrelated to each other. But the French design studio A+A cooren has proved they do have some relevance, with the Tourbillon Vortex Vase. It has two parts, an inner vessel that is shaped like a spiraling vortex and a small cup on the bottom to receive the water.

The vase is made from borosilicate glass and comes in a limited edition of 21 pieces.

Designer: A+A cooren

Charm your guests with our Double Sided Vase. The interesting vase created by Endrit Hajno can serve in two different ways: it holds a bunch of flowers at one end while  merely accommodates one single flower when flipped upside down.

A guaranteed conversation starter for you and your guests.

Designer: Endrit Hajno

What, the flowers decide to give those who often forget to water them a good lesson by hitting on their noses with a ball…? May you believe it or not, that would happen for real if you’re using the “VaseBall” Magnetic Vase. The base of the vase and the top of the base each has magnets, which are mutually exclusive. So when the water in the vase is not enough, the ball-shaped vase will then go up from the ground. According to the designer Min Seok Song, the magnets also act as the “intermediary in communication between human in plant”. It’s time to care your plants more.

Designer: Min Seok Song

Ancient Chinese poems were always endowed with profound meaning or thought. In one famous poem, the poet told us that any beautiful flowers will finally turn into nutrition to support the next generation to bloom. And that’s just where Mike Mak has drawn the inspiration of the innovative vase-’Hua’. When filled with fresh flowers, the vase just indicates the process of blossom. But when the flowers die off, the vase then signifies that they’ve transformed into nutrition for the next blossom season.

Designer: Mike Mak

I just love the look of these vases. All hand-sculptured from white stoneware clay, the Narwhal Vase, Snail Vase, White Rabbit Vase and the Angel Kitty Vase have been fired twice up to 2232 degrees before they were brought to us. Though each piece functions as a vase, these cute gadgets still doubles as an eye-pleasing sculpture when not filled with flowers.

Driven by the instinct for the beauty, girls love to stick flowers in their hair or hats even until these days. Possibly inspired by that, the designer has brought us these lovely vases that are shaped like a young girl with a hat on. So when you put some roses into the vase, you may feel as if you’re sticking some flowers into your little sisters’ hat.

Selling Price: $39.99

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Not merely containers for flowers, vases themselves are decorations, especially the innovative and elegant ones as followings.

Cloth Bags

The vase gradually inclines as you pour water into it.

Wooden Vase

Leather  Bags

Moonlight

Solid Geometry  Vase

Moon River

Vase Pyramid

Merely for One

The Root

A carton of flower

As simple as a vase can

Do you know how old your plant is? You may have a good knowledge of your flower’s habits and characteristics, but seldom its age. So just leave that to the innovative flowerpot built with a LED screen, on which several irregular rings are shown to indicate the age of your plant. So next time, ask the LED flowerpot and it will tell how old your plant is.

Designer: Young Sang Eun

If you’re looking for something to keep your office fresh, you should have a look at the “Root and Flower”, a vase for a single flower. It features a root shape, which indicating the energy origin of flowers.

Selling Price: ¥2400

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Well, in fact, you may go with some difficulty to find out that the vase is actually a water glass if you don’t pay much attention to it. You merely need to place the shapely metal over a table edge, put a water glass behind it and you then get a visually unique vase.

Price: $10
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What do you think the article is? Is it merely a vase? Not really. To most people’s surprise, the ceramic product from Israeli could be used as a kitchen timer as well. When not in use, it’s undoubtedly the most eye-catching appliance in your kitchen.

Designer: Studio Lama

Light ray has been fully developed in its usage nowadays and the huge decoration in the street is just depicting vivid flowers with rays. As a spectacular sight in the night, the mighty ray flowers seem to be sketched sculptures that are perfectly integrated with the fast-tempo city.

Guess and find out what it is.

Actually it’s a unique vase. As the designer drills 98 holes in one water storage pot, the vase can create you an elegant appearance of decoration with 98 different flowers on it. Whatever it looks like after your decoration, the vase will always make your life much brighter.
Selling Price: $199
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As it is designed in the form of a vase, the vase computer is a perfect adornment which can completely integrate with the bedchamber surroundings. It’s also an outstanding computer, which stuffs a 1GB RAM, a 2.5″ hard drive and a blue-ray optical drive into the vase. At the bottom of the vase, there’re also several interfaces to common devices.

The water flowing out from the faucet is usually not natural water, I mean it is filtered by artificial process. In order to make the tap water more natural, there have to be some unique designs. This faucet shapes like a vase and can really hold flower in it. Water gushes to fill the vase, and then cascades down the wide spout.
Smelling flower and touching the waterfall, wow, this experience is pretty amazing.

Designer: Hego Waterdesign

Humidifier is apparently a seasonal product. It is necessary merely in winter rather than all around the year. So the humidifier is actually not in use most of the time. Because of shaping in vase, this innovative humidifier can be used to hold flowers and so be more useful than traditional ones.

Designer: Jin-Yi Park

Vase is a good decoration for house, but it usually comes with only one piece. A vase with two separated piece is generally seems as two vases and has no additional meaning. But this one is a little different.

The additional piece does not function as a container but is merely used for a brilliant idea. The two pieces combine to show a whale spouting water. The water is actually your flower.

Designer: Alessandro Beda

Obviously, vase is used for flowers, so why not just shape it in flowers?

Designer: Scholten and Baijings

Different from normal vase, this one is only a flat 2D one. You need to put an extra glass at the back of it for supporting.

Price: $15

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In order to have a better balance, most vase is made from rigid material. However, if it is a vase as thin as a paper, and could even be collapsible, what do you think?

This unique vase from Jill-able is made from plastic. After being filled water, it could stand still to support itself. Cause its collapsible design, if you don’t have any flower, it is easy to be storage.

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Actually, this concept design has no reason to be a real product, but it is poetic design. Just plug your flower into this unique vase, your flower gonna be upside down, and then as depict in the picture, with the evaporation of the flowers, it gonna rotating back.

After full 360º around back to its original position, flowers have been dead. This might be the so-called reborn.

Designer: Chan-Hee Park

This vase will bow down automatically for water while lacking in water.

Designer: David Sweeney, Jeff Virangkabutra & Michael Korn

Grow plants at the back of your book, it will be greener.

Designer: Soo-Yeon Yang

This vase could contain only one flower. But it is still gorgeous.

Price: $19

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This 2-in-1 pen holder is lifted by a man. It’s pretty cute.

Price: $29.95

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